Background
Leventhal, Howard was born on December 7, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Elias and Mildred (Turetsky) Leventhal.
researcher Health psychology educator
Leventhal, Howard was born on December 7, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Elias and Mildred (Turetsky) Leventhal.
Student, City College of New York, 1950. Bachelor of Science, City University of New York, 1952. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1956.
Assistant professor psychology, Yale University, New Haven, 1958-1964;
associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1964-1967;
professor departments psychology and sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-1988;
director social and personality graduate program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-1977;
acting director Institute on Aging, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986-1987;
department chairman psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1987-1988;
professor department psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1988-1994;
Board governments professor health psychology for health, health care policy and aging, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 1994;
chairman division on health, associate director for program development Institute, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1988-1997. Visiting lecturer Justus Liebig U., Giessen, Germany, summer 1981, U. Tilberg, The Netherlands, summers 1989-1990, Rijks U., Leiden, The Netherlands, summer 1992. Member of advisory commission on cancer control Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, since 1980, member science advising committee, Philadelphia, since 1987, member behavioral medicine study section National Institutes of Health, 1986-1990, chairman 1990-1991, member of national reviewer research, since 1991, member science advisory board United States Air Force Project Heart.
Reviewer Behavioral Medicine, Health Psychology, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, numerous others.
Lieutenant United States Public Health Service, 1956-1958. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (fellow divisions 1, 8, 38, president-elect division 38 1995, president since 1995, Senior Investigator award 1987), American Psychological Society, Academy Behavioral Medicine Research (advisory board 1988-1991). Member Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, American Psychosomatic Society, Society Experimental Social Psychologists, International Society Research in Emotion, Sigma Xi.
Married Elaine A. Silverman, June 6, 1954. Children: Edith A. Leventhal Burns, Sharon G.