Deputy Director
Center for Health Communication

Education:  M.H.S. Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Expertise: Using science-based health communication and social marketing to prevent youth problem behavior, chronic disease, and control of vaccine-preventable diseases.  Forging partnerships between public health and religious organizations.

International service:   Liberia, Malawi, Somalia.

Recent Positions:
Project Director, Healthy Weight Initiative of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, AED.
Project Director, CDC Health Communication and Creative Services Contract, AED.
Project Director, CDC National Immunization Program’s Technical Assistance and Training Network for Immunization Coalitions, AED.

Selected Publications and Presentations:
“Promoting Adult Immunizations in Minority Communities: Lessons Learned from One Year of Technical Assistance to the READII Pilot Sites,” presentation to the 38th National Immunization Conference, May 2004.

“Thinking Like a (Social) Marketer,” presentation to the 38th National Immunization Conference, Nashville, May 2004.

“Public Health Interventions in Religious Settings: Government Agencies as an ‘Honest Broker,’” presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, November 2002.

“Pathways to Prevention. A Prevention Guide for Youth Leaders in Faith Communities.” National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Office of National Drug Control Policy, March 2003.