- Rae Lynn Mitchell
- Administrative Updates, Public Health
Tamika D. Gilreath named SEC Academic Leadership Development Fellow
The program seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within Southeastern Conference institutions and beyond
Public Health Professor Tamika D. Gilreath, PhD, has been selected by Texas A&M University as a Southeastern Conference (SEC) Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) Fellow for 2024-2025. She currently serves as associate dean for faculty affairs and associate director of the Center for Health Equity and Evaluation Research at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health.
Each year the SEC offers its member schools a unique opportunity to foster potential academic administration talent through fellowships that help prepare faculty leaders for further positions and careers in executive service. The SEC ALDP launched in 2007, and Texas A&M has appointed four fellows each year since joining the SEC in 2012. Program alumni have advanced to serve the university as deans, vice provosts and in other senior administrator roles.
The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program offers participants a unique environment to continue developing leadership skills in partnership with other emerging and talented leaders from across the SEC.
Gilreath’s expertise and interest areas include adolescent behavioral health, comorbidity of behavioral health risks, disparities in vulnerable populations, racial/ethnic minorities, military-connected youth and families, and sexual minorities. She earned her PhD in biobehavioral health from Pennsylvania State University, her master’s degree in general psychology from Virginia State University, and her bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary science from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Prior to joining Texas A&M, Gilreath was an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California (2009-16) and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Prevention and Community Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine (2007-09).
Texas A&M ADLP fellows are nominated by deans, vice presidents and associate provosts and participate in a university-level development program designed by each institution for its own fellows along with two SEC-wide, three-day workshops held for all program participants.
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