Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH University of Pennsylvania, USA

Karen Glanz is a Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor and George A. Weiss University Professor, director of the Center for Health Behavior Research, and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research bridges the public health and social science disciplines and focuses on nutrition and obesity, skin cancer prevention, tobacco control, and cancer screening. Dr. Glanz was named a Highly Cited Author by ISIHighlyCited.com and is the principal editor of Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research and Practice (now in its 4th edition). She is a member of the federally appointed U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services, a Senior Editor of Social Science and Medicine, and a member of the Institute of Medicine.