Stephen (Steve) Bowman, PhD, MHA rejoined the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as the MHA Program Director. Steve previously served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Walden University and National University. His professional experience includes more than 15 years in public health practice with the Washington State Department of Health where he held management positions, including director of the Office of Community Health Systems, director for the state’s tobacco prevention and control program and manager of the trauma designation, EMS and trauma registries and statewide quality improvement programs. He received his PhD in 2006 in Health Services Research from the University of Washington where he also completed his MHA. Steve’s research has focused on emergency health systems, injury prevention, acute care injury outcomes, and occupational injury surveillance and identifying new methods for capturing occupational injuries from secondary data sources. In addition to quantitative research, he brings expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research.