Kimberly Warren, Ph.D.

Dr. Kimberly Warren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Morgan State University. She conducts research in the areas of obesity, health promotion, health disparities, and international education. Her original Global Health faculty-led study abroad program in Guatemala was developed in the summer of 2017 with the help of her two children, Tristan and Sawyer. Three successful trips involving 40 students and serving over 200 people in the Guatemalan community led to a technology transfer grant award for business development as well as a second award to patent a study abroad safety mechanism (https://youtu.be/IAIkEf-6t3M). The result is STEAM Abroad, Inc., a non-profit designed to help faculty develop study abroad programs and create more global learning opportunities for students and help fund student travel. 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. 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.