Yvonne Bronner

Dr. Yvonne Bronner serves as Professor in the Department of Public Health at Morgan State University's School of Community Health & Policy. Her office is located in the Health and Human Services Center (HHSC) Room 348A, with contact via 443-885-4035 or yvonne.bronner@morgan.edu. Dr. Bronner holds a BS in Food & Nutrition from the University of Akron, MS in Nutrition & PH from Case Western Reserve University, ScD in Maternal Child Health from Johns Hopkins University, and completed a March of Dimes Fellowship in Maternal Nutrition at UNC.

Her research program focuses on eliminating health disparities among African American communities through culturally tailored interventions. Key areas include breastfeeding promotion among African American women, male involvement in family health, obesity prevention, cardiovascular health awareness, infant safe sleep practices, and community-based participatory research models. Dr. Bronner pioneered one of the first Breastfeeding Peer Counselor evaluations, with over 150,000 promotional materials distributed through WIC programs nationwide.

Dr. Bronner directs the Center for Male and Family Research and Resources, where she assessed Baltimore's first free men's health clinic, and previously directed the NIH-funded Complementary and Alternative Medicine Training Center. Her current research examines pandemic impacts on intimate partner violence, doulas' breastfeeding support roles, and structural determinants of infant mortality.

• National Honor Society's Outstanding Educator Award
• March of Dimes Fellow
• U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (2005)
• Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality
• Institute of Medicine Food and Nutrition Advisory Board (two terms)
• Baltimore's B'More for Healthy Babies Advisory Board
• Dannon's Nutrition Advisory Board
• Chartwell's National Advisory Board
• McDonald's Global Advisory Board

As principal investigator on numerous NIH, CDC, and state-funded grants, Dr. Bronner has led major initiatives including the Nutritional Assessment of Maryland School Children study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute cardiovascular projects in inner-city communities, and CDC-funded church-based interventions in Baltimore. Her Morgan CARES initiative establishes physical infrastructure for community-academic research partnerships, while current grants address vaccine acceptance (VALUE), cardiovascular disease reduction at HBCUs, and infant sleep-related deaths among African Americans. Dr. Bronner's work consistently centers on developing self-assessment tools for African American families to achieve healthy weight through culturally relevant lifestyle changes.