Deborah List, M.A., MPH, Ph.D.

Deborah List
Lecturer,
Director, Bachelor of Science in Public Health

Department of Population Health and Leadership
School of Health Sciences
Education

Ph.D., Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health

MPH, Public Management and Community Health, Harvard School of Public Health

M.A., Health Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

AB (Honors), Psychology and Community Health, Brown University

Significant Awards/Honors

Resource Scholar, Brown University

Maternal and Child Health Training Fellowship, Harvard University

Doctoral Training Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

Delta Omega (Public Health Honor Society)

About Deborah

Deborah G. List has worked in public health in hospital, government, advocacy, and research settings around access and quality of care issues for children with disabilities for over 25 years. She received her undergraduate degree with Honors from Brown University and has a M.A. in Health Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She also holds an MPH in Public Management and Community Health from Harvard School of Public Health. In 2001, she completed her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in Public Health where she researched the impact of maternal stress on the health service use of children with chronic illnesses.

Deborah has held teaching and student advising positions at Hunter College, UConn Stamford, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield University and University of New Haven. Deborah lectures across a broad range of policy and population health topics, but her areas of greatest interest are social justice, health equity and accessibility.

Deborah is particularly interested in student mental health and disability needs and served on the Provost’s Student Success Committee at Sacred Heart University, was the Co-Chair of the Accessibility Task at Fairfield University and currently sits on the Accessibility Committee at the University of New Haven. Over the last 25 years, Deborah has consulted to various organizations on public health policy and program development for vulnerable children and families in CT and the mid-Atlantic.

Additionally, Deborah is actively involved in several community organizations. She served as the chair of Wilton Social Services Commission, and is on the advisory board of the Kanarek Center for Palliative and Supportive Nursing Care Education at Fairfield University and the board of the Wilton Youth Council. She also served on the Wilton Public Schools COVID 19 Re-Entry Committee and the Racial Equity and Inclusion Policy Planning Group.

Deborah and her husband live in Wilton, CT with their 3 teenage boys, one of which who has both life-threatening medical needs and an IEP, and four rescue pets. They spend most of the winter weekends skiing in southern VT, where their boys are also volunteer instructors for the Adaptive Sports Program at Mt. Snow.