Kerri McGowan Lowrey is deputy director and director for grants & research for the Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region, based at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She has more than 20 years of experience in public health law and policy research, as well as primary and secondary legal and legislative research and analysis. Her areas of research have included injury prevention law, particularly traffic safety and sports and recreational injury prevention in children and adolescents; laws affecting return to school after traumatic brain injury; and housing and education as social determinants of health.
She currently leads a cooperative agreement between Maryland Carey Law and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to study novice driver licensing law, policy, and practice in the states. During the pandemic, she founded and ran the Eviction Prevention Project, an interprofessional collaboration between the Clinical Law Program and the UMB School of Social Work, which provided legal and social assistance to families facing eviction and is now a stand-alone clinic within the Clinical Law Program. She serves 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.
Her 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. Prior to joining the Network for Public Health Law, she served as technical vice president at the MayaTech Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, and manager of its Center for Health Policy and Legislative Analysis. She received her JD from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, an MPH from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and AB in public policy and American institutions from Brown University.