Stephanie Miles-Richardson, D.V.M, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephanie Miles-Richardson is the founding Chair of the newly established Department of Public Health Education at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). She is an Associate Dean of the Division of Graduate Education in Public Health and Director of the Master of Public Health Program. She served as a Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine.
Stephanie Miles-Richardson received the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Tuskegee University and a dual PhD in Pathology and Environmental Toxicology from Michigan State University.
Dr. Miles- Richardson joined the faculty at MSM in 2008 after over a decade of federal service at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where she was a US Public Health Service Commissioned Officer and Scientific Technical Advisor for a $4 million toxicology research program, and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where she was Associate Director of Minority Health and Health Disparities Policy.
She was appointed in 2015 to the Board of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), an independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as the accreditation body for programs and schools of public health. Joint appointments were made by the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health.
Dr. Miles-Richardson has made history in academic public health: In 2018, she was the first African American to serve as President of the Association of Accredited Public Health Programs, and in 2019, she was elected President of CEPH, the first African American to serve in this capacity. She is a member of the Association of Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR), where she served on the “One Health Working Group”.
She was awarded a grant from APTR and CDC to develop an interdisciplinary Climate Justice elective course for dissemination. Dr. Miles-Richardson is the recipient of an honorary diploma by the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society for her work in human health, animal health and One Health.
Dr Miles-Richardson is the founding Director of the Beacon of Hope Center of Excellence on Climate and Environmental Health at MSM and a Governing Councilor of the Environment Section of the APHA.
