Bio

Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H., is Associate Director for Grants & Research of the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy and Deputy Director of Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region, both based at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Kerri has more than 20 years of experience as a public health lawyer and legal epidemiologist. Her areas of focus have included injury prevention law, including laws related to return-to-play and return-to-school after traumatic brain injury; novice driver licensing laws and practices; health data privacy and sharing in the school setting; education as a social determinant of health; and housing instability. She was Principal Investigator on a cooperative agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to create a comprehensive database of novice driver licensing laws and practices to identify opportunities for enhancing policy uniformity and innovation across the U.S. During the pandemic, Kerri spearheaded the development of an interprofessional eviction prevention project with the University of Maryland School of Social Work, to provide legal triage and access to community support services for families facing housing instability. Since 2019, she has served as co-chair of the Children’s Safety Now Alliance Steering Committee, an alliance of more than 35 organizations seeking to elevate child safety as a national priority and address the related needs of state and local health departments, and a member since 2015. Kerri’s specialized training includes a four-year term as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where she assisted in developing the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Ethics Track. Kerri also serves as adjunct professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she teaches Leadership in Health Law & Ethics in the executive M.P.H. program, and at Carey Law, where she teaches the Health Law Capstone class for Masters in the Science of Law students. Prior to joining the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, Kerri served as Technical Vice President at the MayaTech Corporation in Silver Spring, MD, and Manager of its Center for Health Policy and Legislative Analysis. She received her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and A.B. in public policy and American institutions from Brown University.