Teresa A. Donovan, M.P.H., has more than 25 years of research and communications experience in the federal government, public health, and academic research environments. She served at the Voice of America, then on the White House staff from 1988 through 1992, first in the Office of Domestic Policy of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, and later as Senior Writer and Editor of Presidential Messages and Correspondence. She later served as a center director for A Woman’s Concern Pregnancy Health Centers in Boston (1996-2002) and director of the Massachusetts Physicians Resource Council. Concurrent with graduate studies at the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health (2002–2005), Donovan served as managing editor for Social Philosophy and Policy, a peer- reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press and the Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation.
Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Des Moines Register, The Journal of Agromedicine, The Washington Stand and numerous other regional and national publications. She worked for 8 years at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health, including the federally funded Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention and the Central Appalachian Education and Research Center. At the University of Cincinnati and its College of Medicine, she served for a decade as program director of the Center for Environmental Genetics, funded by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIH-NIEHS). Donovan’s research interests and publications focus on women’s health, maternal-child health, environmental exposures, and the developmental origins of health and disease.
