Shalon Howard is a Senior Research Associate and Associate Director for Research Development and Strategic Initiatives for the Research Center for Transforming Health (RCTH) at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia. She has spent her career in health-related research and has significant experience in all aspects of research from grant development and project design, to dissemination of results. In recent years, she has worked closely with USC School of Medicine leadership to launch the RCTH and its many programs and services. Ms. Howard is dedicated to research and supporting investigators to make research possible.