Colleen Mcbride

Professor
Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences
Hubert Department of Global Health
Colleen Mcbride

Bio

Dr. McBride is a professor of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences, and served as the department chair 2014-2021.  She came to Emory from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, where she served as founding chief and senior investigator of the Social and Behavioral Research Branch. McBride's research focuses on innovative public health interventions to promote risk-reducing behaviors, specifically using genetic information to motivate healthy behaviors. Genetic information, scientists believe, eventually will allow lifestyle interventions to be personalized to make compliance with healthy behaviors easier.

McBride held academic positions at the University of Washington as well as Duke University Medical Center, where she served as chief of the Division of Prevention Research in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. At Duke, she was director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. She has held adjunct faculty appointments in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Areas of Interest

  • Behavior and Health
  • Cancer Prevention
  • Global Health
  • Health Communication
  • Health Promotion
  • Obesity Prevention
  • Smoking Prevention/Cessation
  • Genetics

Education

  • PhD Behavioral Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
  • MA Sociology, University of Arizona
  • BA Sociology, University of Wisconsin

Affiliations

Leadership
BRIDGES – Academic Leadership for Women, University of North Carolina, 1996
Executives in the Health Professions, Duke University, 2001
Harvard Business School Negotiation Workshop, 2008

Editorship
Society for Behavioral Medicine Newsletter, Founding Editor, 1993-1996
Associate Editor Health Psychology, 2002
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Editorial Board, 2002 - present
Associate Editor, Public Health Genomics 2011- present