Whitney Garney

Dr. Whitney Garney is an Associate Professor at the Department of Health Behavior, Texas A&M University School of Public Health. She serves as Director of the Center for Community Health and Aging and Research Director for the Texas A&M Telehealth Institute. Her work focuses on systems approaches to public health prevention, healthcare access, telehealth, and cardiovascular/adolescent health.

• PhD in Kinesiology - Health Education (2015)
• MPH in Social & Behavioral Health (2012)
• BS in Health (2010)

Her research emphasizes social ecology and health across the lifespan, with over $28 million in external funding since 2015. She has led systems-level evaluations funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and contributed to NIH grant reviews.

• 2023 Policy and Systems Efforts Award
• 2021 Early Career Research Excellence Award
• 2021 The Heart Challenge
• 2018-2021 Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leader Fellow

Dr. Garney has held editorial roles at Family and Community Health (2020-2023) and served on multiple AHA committees, including the Workplace Health Steering Committee (2018-2022) and Policy Implementation and Evaluation Advisory Committee (2019-2021).