Mary P. Gallant

Mary P. Gallant currently serves as Dean of the Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences at University of Massachusetts Lowell. 

From March 2022 to August 2023, she was Interim Dean of the University at Albany School of Public Health. During her tenure as interim dean from March 2022 to August 2023, she secured a three-year $1.5 million HRSA grant for the Strengthening the Public Health Workforce Scholarship Program, which aimed to enhance the diversity of the public health workforce. Prior to her service as interim dean, she served for nine years as the school’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, then Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2013-2022), Provost Fellow for tenure and promotion (2012-2013) and department chair (2007-2010). 

As a professor in the school’s department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, her research portfolio focused on self-care and health promotion among older adults, with a special focus on understanding how social support and social relationships influence self-care and chronic illness management. Her work also focused on informal caregiving, and on the evaluation of evidence-based interventions when translated and implemented in public health practice settings. 

From 2014 to 2015, Gallant was a Fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Lowell Community Health Center, and an active member of the Aging and Public Health Section of the American Public Health Association, in which she has held elected roles of treasurer and section chair, and was the recipient of the section’s Philip G. Weiler Award for Leadership in Aging and Public Health. She is also an accreditation site visitor for the Council on Education in Public Health.