Linda Neuhauser and Gary L. Kreps to Co-present at Berkeley

Linda Neuhauser and Gary L. Kreps will contribute a one-hour plenary co-presentation at the International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society 20-22 January 2011 in Berkeley, CA., USA.

Linda Neuhauser, DrPH, is Clinical Professor of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Her research, teaching and practice are focused on translating research findings into improved health interventions, including mass communication. She is especially interested in leveraging participatory approaches to improve the relevance of communication to meet the literacy, linguistic, cultural and access needs of diverse audiences. She is co-principal investigator of the UC Berkeley Health Research for Action Center that works with users to co-design and evaluate multi-media health communication resources that have now reached over 30 million households in the US and overseas.

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Gary L. Kreps is University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at George Mason University, where he directs the Center for Health and Risk Communication. His active research program, reported in more than 300 scholarly books and articles, examines the role of communication in promoting health, enhancing quality of care, and reducing health disparities. Prior to his appointment at George Mason University, he was the founding Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NIH).

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