Jennifer Manganello

Jennifer Manganello is the Interim Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and a Professor in the College of Integrated Health Sciences. 

As associate vice provost, Dr. Manganello is responsible for overseeing tenure-track faculty searches, managing faculty tenure and promotion, assisting with new faculty orientation, and co-leading the Provost’s Leadership Academy, a program designed to engage associate professors and early full professors in leadership development. Dr. Manganello’s former leadership roles include Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Health and Provost Fellow in the Office of the Vice President for Research & Economic Development. Most recently, she was Associate Dean for Public Health Practice in the School of Public Health, as well as a Faculty Fellow in the Minerva Center for High Impact Learning.

Dr. Manganello studies health literacy and the impacts of media and technology on people’s health, applying a broad range of skills and methodologies and conducting primary data collection and secondary data analysis. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and has published in a range of journals in the field of medicine, public health and communication. She has also mentored undergraduate, masters and doctoral-level students throughout her time at UAlbany.

A former research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, Dr. Manganello was recently awarded both a Richard P. Nathan Public Policy Fellowship by the Rockefeller Institute of Government and a LEND Trainee fellowship from the University of Connecticut’s Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. She is also the recipient of the K. Everett M. Rogers Award for Public Health Communication from the American Public Health Association and is a member of the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society.