Acknowledgments/Credits
The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) acknowledges
the following individuals and organizations for their part in the
creation of the Health Communication Focus Area Action Plans.
Cynthia Baur, ODPHP, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), Health Communication Focus Area Lead and Managing Editor
of the Action Plans
Mary Jo Deering, ODPHP, HHS, Deputy Director for Management and
e-Health and former Health Communication Focus Area Lead
Members of the Steering Committee for the October 12, 2001,
meeting
- Kelly Alley, Health Communications Special Interest Group, Society
for Public Health Education
- Amy Chadwick, Healthy People 2010 Committee of the
Health Communication Working Group, American Public Health Association
(APHA)
- Mary Jo Deering, ODPHP, HHS
- Alicia Dorsey, Health Communication Division, National Communication
Association (NCA)
- Vicki Freimuth, Office of Communication, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), HHS
- Thomas Gordon, Healthy People 2010 Committee of the
Health Communication Working Group, APHA
- Gary Kreps, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes
of Health (NIH), HHS
- Terry Long, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
NIH, HHS
- Scott Ratzan, Journal of Health Communication
- Barbara Rimer, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Kim Witte, Health Communication Division, International Communication
Association
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Sponsors of the October 12, 2001, meeting
- Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Behavioral
Research Program, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Healthy People 2010 Committee of the Health Communication
Working Group, APHA
- Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIH, HHS
- Office of Communication, CDC, HHS
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Drafters of the background papers/action plans
Objective 11-1
- Robert Gold, University of Maryland
- Nancy Atkinson, University of Maryland
Objective 11-2
- Rima Rudd, Harvard School of Public Health
Objective 11-3
Objective 11-4
Objective 11-5
- Gary Kreps, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Thomas Gordon, Temple University
Objective 11-6
- Debra Roter, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Gregory Makoul, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Participants in the small groups of experts
Objective 11-1
- Rachel Anderson, Benton Foundation
- Stephen Downs, U.S. Department of Commerce (at the time of the
meeting)
- Keith Fulton, AOL Time Warner Foundation
- Brian Komar, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Frank Principi, National Governor's Association (at the time
of the meeting)
- Elisabeth Stock, Computers for Youth
- Note taker: Sara Coggins, NCI, NIH, HHS
Objective 11-2
- Marin Allen, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (NIDCD), NIH, HHS
- Terry Davis, Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine
- Ron Pugsley, U.S. Department of Education
- Joanne Schwartzberg, American Medical Association (AMA)
- Yvonne Thayer, Virginia Department of Education
- Note taker: Stephanie Smith, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health
Objective 11-3
- Robert Hornik, Annenberg School for Communication, University
of Pennsylvania
- Craig Lefebvre, Prospect Center
- Terry Long, NHLBI, NIH, HHS
- Susan Middlestadt, Academy for Educational Development
- Note taker: Sara Alden, NCI, NIH, HHS
Objective 11-4
- Chuck Bell, Consumers Union
- Carol Cronin, Markle Foundation
- Bob Denniston, Office of National Drug Control Policy
- Joan Dzenowagis, World Health Organization
- Note taker: Marianne Glass Duffy, National Institute of Nursing
Research, NIH, HHS
Objective 11-5
- Michael Barnes, Brigham Young University (BYU)
- Don Cegala, Ohio State University
- Dianne Needham, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Michael Slater, Colorado State University
- K. Viswanath, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Note taker: Heather Burns, NCI, NIH, HHS
Objective 11-6
- Kaytura Felix Aaron, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
HHS
- Charmaine Cummings, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Mary Jo Deering, ODPHP, HHS
- Barbara Sharf, Texas A&M University
- Robert Shochet, American Academy on Physician and Patient
- Note taker: Laura Zauderer, NCI, NIH, HHS
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Organizations that sponsored presentations of the action
plans
- Kentucky Conference on Health Communication, Department of Communication,
University of Kentucky, Lexington
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Members of the Healthy People 2010 Health Communication
Focus Area Work Group (2002)
- Mariela Alarcon-Yohe, Association of State and Territorial
Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education
- Marin Allen, NIDCD, NIH, HHS
- Jill Bartholemew, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Blake Crawford, Office of Minority Health, HHS
- Terry Davis, LSU School of Medicine
- Connie Dresser, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Kay Garvey, Office of Communications, Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), HHS
- Thomas Gordon, Temple University
- Elizabeth Howze, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,
HHS
- Rosemary Janiszewski, National Eye Institute, NIH, HHS
- Linda Johnston-Lloyd, HRSA, HHS
- Cynthia Jorgensen, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, CDC, HHS
- Sandra Kappert, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, HHS
- Gary Kreps, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Naomi Kulakow, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,
Food and Drug Administration, HHS
- James Lindenberger, Best Start Social Marketing
- Edward Maibach, Porter Novelli
- Nelia Nadal, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS
- Reba Novich, NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases, National
Resource Center
- Karen Pocinki, National Institute on Aging, NIH, HHS
- Barry Portnoy, NCI, NIH, HHS
- Christine Prue, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities, CDC, HHS
- Scott Ratzan, Journal of Health Communication
- Valerie Scardino, Office of Women's Health, HHS
- Sue Stableford, AHEC Health Literacy Center, University of New
England
- Sharyn Sutton, Sutton Group
- Jean Wooldridge, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
ODPHP would like to offer special recognition to Thomas Gordon,
Suzanne Hogan, Amy Chadwick, Holly Massett, and the other members
of the Healthy People 2010 Committee of the Health Communication
Working Group, Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section,
APHA, for undertaking their own assessment of the health communication
objectives and encouraging ODPHP to develop the action plans.
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