About the M.A. in Strategic Communication
Health Journalism Curriculum
Health Journalism Faculty
Frequently Asked Questions
Health Journalism Students

 

 






Program Faculty

   
John Finnegan, Jr., SPH
John Finnegan is the Dean of the School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching interests include health promotion and community-based campaigns, with a focus on mass communication and public health. His teaching includes Mass Communication and Public Health, and Community Health Theory and Practice.
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Ian Greaves, SPH
Ian Greaves is a physician who trained initially in internal and pulmonary medicine, and later specialized in occupational medicine. His research focus has been in lung diseases caused by airborne exposures in the workplace and general environment. More recently, he has specialized in agricultural health and safety issues, workers’ compensation, and international issues in environmental and occupational health.
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Gary Schwitzer, SJMC
Professor Schwitzer worked for 30 years as a health/medical news reporter, producer, and editor with such organizations as CNN, MayoClinic.com, WFAA (Dallas), WTMJ (Milwaukee), the American Heart Association and the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making. He served two terms as a board member of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Schwitzer is also the publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, a project of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.
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Brian Southwell, SJMC

Brian Southwell received his Ph.D. in communication from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a Visiting Fellow with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in addition to working with a variety of other organizations on public health projects. His research interests include evaluation of large-scale health promotion campaigns, understanding news coverage as a predictor of health behavior, and investigation of health information processing.

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Daniel Sullivan, SJMC
Dan Sullivan was formerly Director of Strategic Development for the McClatchy/Cowles Media Company/Star Tribune in Minneapolis.
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Marco Yzer, SJMC

Marco Yzer received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has been involved in health interventions in the Netherlands and the United States and has extensive experience in programs directed at HIV/AIDS prevention, smoking cessation, and prevention of illicit drug use. His research focuses on the application of behavioral theory to the design and evaluation of health campaigns. His teaching includes Mass Communication and Public Health.
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Affiliated Faculty

 
   
Kenneth O Doyle, SJMC

Ken Doyle has used his education in business psychology and measurement to fuel current research interests in media and financial values and behaviors, public opinion formation and expressions, and culture-sensitive communications. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media.

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Chris Ison , SJMC
Chris Ison was the assistant managing editor for projects at the Star Tribune newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1990, and has won a number of other national, regional, and state awards. He also reported for the Duluth News Tribune. Ison is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was editor of The Minnesota Daily.
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Russell V. Luepker, SPH
Russell Luepker graduated from the University of Rochester Medical School and pursued postgraduate training in medicine and cardiology at the University of California, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard. He received a master’s degree in epidemiology from Harvard. Professor Luepker’s primary research interests are in cardiovascular epidemiology, community disease prevention, and outcomes research.
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Mary Story, SPH
Mary Story received her Ph.D. in nutrition science from Florida State University. She has worked in the area of child and adolescent nutrition for several years. Her research focuses on understanding factors related to eating behaviors of youth, as well as community, school, and family-based interventions for obesity prevention, healthy eating, and physical activity among children, adolescents, and families. Her research also focuses on environmental interventions to promote healthful food choices.
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