Office: 107 Coverdell Center
Phone Number: (706) 542-0586
Fax Number: (706) 583-0853
E-Mail Address: freimuth@grady.uga.edu
Web site: http://www.biomed.uga.edu/health_communications.html

	Education
	Ph.D., Communication, Florida State University M.S., Rhetoric and Public Address, University of Iowa B.S., Speech Communication, Eastern Illinois University

Teaching Specialty

Dr. Freimuth teaches health and risk communication. She started one of the first health communication graduate programs in the country at the University of Maryland. In 1990 that university honored her with the Outstanding Woman of the Year award. The widely-used health communication planning and training CD-rom, CDCynergy, was developed under her direction when she was Director of Communication at CDC.

Research Interests

Dr. Freimuth?s research focuses on the role of communication in health promotion both in the U.S. and in developing countries. She was awarded the first annual Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award from both the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association in 1999. Her research has received several Top Three paper awards from these two organizations. She has been the recipient of several research grants including those from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the author of Searching for Health Information: The Cancer Information Service Model, and the co-editor of Communication, Language, and Health, and AIDS: Communication Perspectives. She has authored chapters in several major books in health communication and articles in such journals as Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Health Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Communication, American Journal of Public Health, and Health Education Research: Theory and Practice. She has served as Associate Editor of several journals including Journal of Communication, The Journal of Health Communication, Communication Education, Human Communication Research, and Communication Quarterly.

Experience

Dr. Freimuth was Director of Communication at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1996-2003. During her tenure there, she built communication capacity in all of the centers, established training in health and risk communication including the widely-used CDCynergy, created an identity and branding program for CDC, and developed an emergency communication system to cope with terrorism and emerging infectious diseases. Earlier in her career, Dr. Freimuth served as Director of Research for Porter, Novelli and Associates, a consulting firm in Washington, DC. She has also consulted for numerous health organizations such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the National Cancer Institute, the National Eye Institute, USAID, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

	Curriculum Vitae
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