Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH

Karen Glanz PhD, MPH is the George A. Weiss University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Program Co-Leader for the Cancer Control Program at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn, where she was the Associate Director for community-engaged research from 2019 to 2022. Her research in community and health care settings focuses on obesity, nutrition, skin cancer prevention and the built environment, reducing health disparities, dissemination and implementation science, and health communication technologies.

Glanz has published over 550 articles and chapters and is the lead editor on five editions of the widely used text, Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice (Jossey-Bass: 1990, 1996, 2002, 2008, 2015). She was named by Clarivate (formerly ISI) as a Highly Cited Researcher (among the top 1% most cited in her subject field) since 2016, named among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2015, and rated as a Best Female Scientist in 2022 by Research.com. Dr. Glanz was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.