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Donald K. Brazeal, SJMC |
| Professor Brazeal has more than 10 years of editing experience with The Washington Post, including serving as editor and publisher of Digital Ink Co., the precursor to Washingtonpost.com, in Washington, D.C. |
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Kenneth O. Doyle, SJMC |
| Dr. 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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John Finnegan, Jr., SPH |
| John Finnegan received his PhD 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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Chris Ison , SJMC |
| Chris Ison is a visiting associate professor on leave from the Star Tribune newspaper, where he was the assistant managing editor for projects. 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. He teaches the Jour 5101 Advanced Newswriting and Reporting class in this program. |
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Leyla Kokmen, SJMC |
Leyla Kokmen is the program coordinator for the Health Journalism M.A. She has been a staff reporter at daily and weekly papers across the United States, including the Twin Cities' City Pages, The Seattle Times, and The Denver Post, where she contributed to that newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Columbine High School massacre. She has also freelanced for such media outlets as the Star Tribune newspaper and Twin Cities Public Television. She has a B.A. in German studies from Columbia University and an M.A. in health journalism from the University of Minnesota |
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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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Gary Schwitzer, SJMC |
Professor Schwitzer, Director of Graduate Studies, 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. He teaches the core proseminar in the program.
Schwitzer is also the publisher of Health News Review, a project of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making. |
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Brian Southwell, SJMC |
Dr. Southwell received his PhD 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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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. She is also the SPH's Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs. |
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Daniel Sullivan, SJMC |
Dr. 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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