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Kimberly R. Warren, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Psychology, Director of Morgan CARES, President of STEAM Abroad, Inc.
Morgan State University

Dr. Warren conducts research in the areas of obesity, health promotion, health disparities, and international education. She developed a Global Health faculty-led study abroad program in Guatemala in 2017 which has led to the development of STEAM Abroad, Inc. Dr. Warren has developed a virtual exchange (VE) program with a university in Mexico in which students work together to design a health-related intervention and participate in activities including a culinary medicine class in which students cook a meal together created with disease-fighting ingredients. Dr. Warren was also a recipient of the 2021 Bears Beyond Borders Innovation Award and elected to the VE Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) training program team to develop Morgan State University’s first VE COIL program. She is a member of the Latin American COIL Network. In addition, she serves on the both the Internationalization of Education Task Force (IETF) and the Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS) Advisory Committee at Morgan State University, serves a reviewer for Routledge Global Student Mobility Series and Journal of International Students, regularly presents at the Maryland International Education Consortium Conference, and has attended numerous workshops on Virtual Exchange and Global Learning including the Florida International University (FIU) COIL Virtual Exchange Leadership Institute. Dr. Warren was the recipient of the Dr. Sandye Jean McIntyre, II International Award in January of 2022 and the Transform Mid-Atlantic Faculty Service Learning Award in November of 2023. She is the Director of Morgan CARES which houses the Central Office for the International Collaboration for Participatory Health Research (ICPHR) and President of STEAM Abroad, Inc.

Education: Ph.D. in Behavioral Medicine/Human Services Psychology from UMBC in 2006

Research Interests: Obesity, Health Disparities, Global Health, Health Behaviors/Promotion, International Education

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