Myde Boles, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
503-725-8468
mboles@pdx.edu

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Gary R. Brodowicz, Ph.D.
503-725-5119
brodowiczg@pdx.edu
VITA

Gary Brodowicz, Ph.D. is a Professor of Community Health, and the director of the exercise physiology laboratory and director of the Portland State's fitness assessment, ONTRAC. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Dr. Brodowicz's academic interest areas include exercise, fitness, physical activity and measurement. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a member of the American Physiological Association, and an honorary member of the Japanese Society of Sports and Osteopathic Therapy. Dr. Brodowicz is currently serving a 3-year term on the Oregon Governor's Council for Physical Fitness and Sports, and is involved with the Oregon Coalition for promoting Physical Activity. A certified ACSM Health/Fitness Director, he regularly works with the YMCA as a consultant for their Exercise Specialist Workshops and Certification Exams, and continues to be involved in fitness assessment workshops for the Japanese Athletic Trainers Association for Certification (JATAC). He has served as a reviewer for the American College of Sports Medicine's Health and Fitness Journal, The Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, and The Journal of Athletic Training.

Selected publications:

Brodowicz, G. (2000). Exercise training and physical activity: Approaches for improving health. J Sport Sci Osteopath Ther, vol. 1, 153-160.

Svoboda, M., & Brodowicz, G. (1998). Physiological effects of short duration aerobic training in healthy adults. Jpn J Judo Ther, vol. 6, 163-171.

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Stephanie Farquhar, Ph.D.
503-725-5167
farquhar@pdx.edu
VITA

Dr. Farquhar is an Assistant Professor of Community Health at Portland State. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan's School of Public Health. She draws primarily from the principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to address issues of social and environmental equity as it relates to health. Prior to arriving at the School of Community Health, Dr. Farquhar completed a one-year W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Health Scholars postdoctoral fellowship and worked with rural Eastern North Carolina community members to change discriminatory local and state-level natural disaster recovery policies. For her dissertation research, Dr. Farquhar collaborated with residents of Detroit, Michigan to document the presence of neighborhood-level environmental stressors, including indicators of urban deterioration and blight. The results were used to mobilize communities to begin to seek changes in city environmental policies and practices. Additional research interests include the effects of grassroots participation on health and the role of the university in academic-community public health partnerships.

Selected publications:

Farquhar, S.A., Parker, E.A., Israel, B.A., & Schulz, A.S. (2003). The effects of the physical environment on health and well-being in residents of eastside and southwest Detroit, Michigan. Health Education & Behavior.

Israel, B.A., Farquhar, S.A., James, S.A., Schulz, A.S., Parker, E.A., & Schork, T. (2002). The relationship between social support, stress and health among women on Detroit's eastside. Health Education and Behavior.

Farquhar, S.A., Wing, S. (2002). Methodological and ethical considerations of community-driven environmental justice research: Examination of two case studies from rural North Carolina. In Minkler, Wallerstein (eds). Community-based Participatory Research for Health. Rutgers, NY.

Farquhar, S.A., Parker, E.A., Israel, B.A., Schulz, A.S. (2002). The
physical is social: Residents' narratives on environmental inequity and
exposure. Special Issue: West Harlem Environmental Justice Action.

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Heather Hartley, Ph.D.
503-725-8161
hartleyh@pdx.edu
VITA

Heather Hartley is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Portland State. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999. Her primary research interests are the sociology of health and illness and the sociology of gender and sexualities. Her current research focuses on: (1) the evolving political-economic influence of the pharmaceutical industry (specifically, as manifested in the medicalization of women's sexual problems and in the now widespread use of televised direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals), and (2) the health impacts of welfare reform. Past research projects include an assessment of the impact of managed care on interprofessional competition and the use of certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and a case study analysis of forces promoting health insurance coverage of homebirth.

Selected publications:

Hartley, H. (2003). "Big Pharma" in our Bedrooms: An Analysis of the Medicalization of Women's Sexual Problems. Advances in Gender Research vol 7.

Hartley, H. (2002). The System of Alignments Challenging Physician Professional Dominance: An Elaborated Theory of Countervailing Powers. Sociology of Health & Illness 24:178-207.

Hartley, H., & Drew, T. (2001). Gendered Messages in Sex Ed Films: Trends and Implications for Female Sexual Problems. Women and Therapy, vol. 24. Also appearing in Kaschak, E. & Tiefer, L. (eds.), A New View of Women's Sexual Problems. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.

Hartley, H. (1999). What's My Orientation? Using the Teacher-as-Text Strategy as Feminist Pedagogical Practice. Teaching Sociology, vol. 27, 398-406.

Hartley, H. (1999). Influence of Managed Care on Supply of Certified Nurse-Midwives: An Evaluation of the Physician Dominance Thesis. Journal of Health and Social Behavior vol. 40, 87-101.

Member of group organizing conference entitled: "The New 'Female Sexual Dysfunction': Promises, Prescriptions, and Profits." Scheduled for March 9, 2002, San Francisco, CA.

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Mark Kaplan, DrPH
503-725-8588
kaplanm@pdx.edu
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Mark Kaplan, DrPH, is an Associate Professor of Community Health at Portland State. He received his M.S.W. from Arizona State University and M.P.H. and DrPH from the University of California, Berkeley. He held a National Cancer Institute postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California Institute for Prevention Research (1988-90). He has special interests in the study of depression and suicide in late life. His publications include studies on the epidemiology and prevention of suicide across the life span. The National Institute of Mental Health has funded his research. Dr. Kaplan is also an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University.

Recent publications:

Kaplan, M.S., Newsom, J.T., & McFarland, B.H. (in press). Older adults'
contacts with health practitioners: Is there an association with smoking
practices? Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

Kaplan, M.S., Chang, C., Newsom, J.T., & McFarland, B.H. (2002).
Acculturation status and hypertension among Asian immigrants in Canada. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 56(6) 455-6.

Joe, S. & Kaplan, M.S. (2002). Use of firearms in suicide among young
African-American Males 1979-1997, Psychiatric Services, vol. 53: 332-334.

Kaplan, M.S., Newsom, J.T., McFarland, B.H., & Lu, L. (2001). Demographic
and psychosocial correlates of physical activity in late life, American Journal
of Preventive Medicine, 21(4), 332-4.

Kaplan, M.S., Adamek, M.E., & Martin, J.L. (2001). Confidence of primary
care physicians in assessing the suicidality of geriatric patients.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol.16, 728-734.

Joe, S. & Kaplan, M.S. (2001). Suicide among African-American Men. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, vol. 31, 106-121.

Adamek, M.E. & Kaplan, M.S. (2000). Caring for Depressed and Suicidal Older Patients: A Comparison of Physicians and Nurse Practitioners. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, vol. 30, 111-125.

Kaplan, M.S., Adamek, M.E., & Calderon, A. (1999). Managing Depressed and Suicidal Geriatric Patients: A Survey of Primary Care Physicians. The
Gerontologist, vol. 39, 417-425.

Kaplan, M.S. & Geling, O. (1999). Sociodemographic and Geographic Patterns of Firearm Suicide in the United States, 1989-93. Health & Place, vol. 5, 179-185.

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Elizabeth A. Kutza, Ph.D.
Director, Institute on Aging
503 725-5144
kutzae@pdx.edu

Dr. Kutza is the Director of Portland State's Institute on Aging. Her special interest is in the field of federal aging policy. Author of The Benefits of Old Age: Social Welfare Policy for the Elderly (University of Chicago Press, 1981), she also has written widely in the area of long-term care and community-based aging services. Selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, Dr. Kutza spent the 1983-84 academic year as a professional staff member of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington, D.C.

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Regina Lawrence, Ph.D.
503-725-3056
lawrencer@pdx.edu
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Regina Lawrence, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Portland State and Associate Director of the Northwest Communication Research Group. She earned her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Washington. Her research interests include media coverage of public policy issues and of the criminal justice system, the politics of problem definition in public debate, and the effects of news events on public understandings of political issues. Recent projects include a review of media coverage and congressional legislative activity surrounding the school violence issue that emerged in the public and policy agendas beginning in 1996. Defining Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena, published as a book chapter in 2001, examined New York Times and LA Times coverage of school violence in the aftermath of the school shootings in Columbine . She has authored a book on media coverage of police brutality as well as articles on media coverage of environmental issues and the welfare reform debate.

Selected publications:

Lawrence, R. (2000). The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Lawrence, R. (2001). Defining Events: Problem Definition in the Media Arena. In Hart, R. & Sparrow, B. (eds.) Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield Press.

Lawrence, R. (2000). Game-Framing the Issues: Tracking the Strategy Frame in Public Policy News. Political Communication, vol. 17(2).

Lawrence, R., Bennett, W.L. (2001). Civic Engagement in the Era of Big Stories. Political Communication, vol.17(4).

Lawrence, R., Bournhonesque, R. (2001). Starting a New Conversation: An Analysis of News Coverage of Antibiotic Resistance.

Lawrence, R., Winnett, L., Sussman, G. (2001). Reading Between the Lines on Measure 7. Oregon's Future, vol. II, no. 4, Spring.

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Sharon Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
503-725-3962
lees@pdx.edu


SHARON M. LEE is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology. Prior to joining Portland State University in 1998, she had taught at the National University of Singapore, Cornell University, and the University of Richmond. Her research focuses on social demography, immigration and immigrant experiences, race and ethnicity (particularly measurement issues, Asian Americans, and intermarriage), and language and cultural diversity and healthcare. She recently completed a study of the effects of interpreter services on limited English proficient patients' healthcare use, and is currently studying how cultural differences influence foreign born Chinese, Filipino, and Vietnamese women's health attitudes, beliefs, behavior, and experiences. She represents the Population Association of America on the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations, and is a member of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on Race Statement, the Steering Committee of the Scholars' Network of Hablamos Juntos (a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded initiative to improve patient-provider communication among Spanish-speaking patients), and the Office of Minority Health's Advisory Committee for its Pilot Project on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Healthcare.

Selected publications:

B. Edmonston, S.M. Lee, and J.S. Passel. "Recent trends in intermarriage and immigration and their effects on the future racial composition of the U.S. population." In Counting races, Recognizing Multiracials, edited by J. Perlmann and M. Waters, Russell Sage Foundation (forthcoming, October 2002).

S.M. Lee. 2002. "Do Asian American faculty face a glass ceiling in higher education?" American Educational Research Journal vol. 39, no. 3: 695-724.

S.M. Lee. 2001. Using the New Racial Categories in the 2000 Census. Washington, D.C.: The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.

S.M. Lee. 1999. "Do foreign birth and Asian minority status lower Canadian women's earnings?" Canadian Studies in Population vol. 26, no. 2: 159-182.

S.M. Lee. 1998. "Asian Americans: Diverse and Growing." Population Bulletin vol. 53, no. 2: 1-40. Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau.

S.M. Lee and M. Fernandez. 1998. "Trends in Asian American racial/ethnic intermarriage: a comparison of 1980 and 1990 census data." Sociological Perspectives vol. 41, no. 2: 323-342.

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Leslie McBride, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health
503-725-5102
mcbridel@pdx.edu


Leslie McBride, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Community Health at Portland State. She earned her Ph.D. in community health from Southern Illinois University. Dr. McBride has conducted focus group research on the topics of exercise adherence and healthy aging and has served as research consultant to the Center for Outcomes Research and Education on a qualitative study of spirituality and health. She recently completed a program evaluation for the Tri-County Healthy Communities Programs and is currently evaluating leadership development programs for the Institute for Non-Profit Management at Portland State University. Dr. McBride is particularly interested in the use of mind-body approaches in prevention of disease and enhancing human potential. She is interested in systems theory as a means for understanding health, and in participatory approaches to teaching and research. In particular, she has been exploring the role of Bohmian Dialogue in adult learning for five years. She is also currently exploring the catalytic potential of mind-body techniques, both ancient (e.g., yoga, meditation) and modern (e.g. energy psychology) for bringing about change in adult learners.

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Yvonne L. Michael, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor of Community Health
503-725-5108
michaely@pdx.edu
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Dr. Michael is an Assistant Professor of Community Health at Portland State. She earned her Sc.D. in epidemiology and health and social behavior at Harvard School of Public Health. Research and teaching interests are the factors in the social environment that influence health, including, social connectedness, social integration and social capital; healthy aging; women's health; cancer prevention; and racial and ethnic health differentials. Prior to joining the faculty at Portland State, she completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship sponsored by the National Institute of Aging at John's Hopkins School for Public Health. At Hopkins, she worked as part of a multi-disciplinary investigative team of researchers to implement a community engagement model for urban seniors. Additional research areas include the mediating influence of social networks and social integration on functional health status among breast cancer patients, the impact of living arrangement and neighborhood environment on health, and image and perceptions of aging.

Selected publications:

Michael Y.L., Colditz, G.A., Coakley, E., & Kawachi, I. (1999). Health behaviors, social networks, and healthy aging: Cross-sectional evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. Quality of Life Research, vol. 8, 711-722.

Michael, Y.L., Kawachi, I., Stampfer, M.J., Colditz, G.A., & Curhan, G.C. (2000). Quality of life among women with Interstitial Cystitis. Journal of Urology, vol. 164, 423-427.

Michael, Y.L., Kawachi, I., Berkman, L.F., Holmes M., & Colditz, G.A. (2000). The persistent impact of breast cancer on functional health status: Prospective evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. Cancer, vol. 98, 2176-86.

Michael Y.L., Berkman L.F., Colditz G.A., & Kawachi I. (2000). Living arrangements, social integration, and change in functional health status: Prospective evidence from the Nurses' Health Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 153, 123-31.

Michael, Y.L., Colditz, G.A., Berkman, L.F., Holmes, M., & Kawachi, I. (2002). Social networks and health-related quality of life in breast cancer survivors. Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine 52(5):285-93.

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Margaret Neal, Ph.D.
Professor of Community Health and Urban Studies and Planning
503-725-5145
nealm@pdx.edu


Margaret Neal, Ph.D. is Professor of Community Health at the Institute on Aging in the School of Community Health at Portland State. She also is the Director of the University's Survey Research Laboratory. In her capacity as Director of the Survey Research Laboratory, Dr. Neal oversees the conduct of telephone, mail, and Web surveys, and focus groups for University professors, researchers, and departments, state and local public agencies, and private non-profit organizations. The Laboratory is a full-service research organization, with computer-assisted telephone and personal interviewing (CATI and CAPI), telephone sampling, mailed survey administration, and data analysis capability.

For the past several years, Dr. Neal's substantive research interests have concerned the challenges and opportunities faced by individuals who balance employment with providing informal care to elderly family members or friends, and what the public and private sectors can do to assist these caregivers. She has received several grants and written numerous articles, book chapters, and two books on these topics (Balancing Work and Caregiving for Children, Adults, and Elders (Sage, 1993); Work and Caring for the Elderly: International Perspectives (edited with Viola Lechner, Taylor & Francis, 1999). Also, Dr. Neal is the primary author of Aging Oregonians: Trends and Projections, 1993. A similar publication is planned using the 2000 U.S. Census data for Oregon.

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Jason T. Newsom, Ph.D.
503-725-5136
newsomj@pdx.edu

Dr. Newsom is a Senior Research Associate at Portland State's Institute of Aging and an adjunct faculty member for PSU's College of Urban and Public Affairs. He received his doctorate in social psychology from Arizona State University. Dr. Newsom is a social psychologist whose interests include caregiving, physical functioning, social support, applied statistics, and research methodology. He has recently completed a study funded by National Institute on Aging studying care recipients' negative reactions to assistance and their consequences for mental health. He is currently co-investigator on two projects. One project, funded by National Institute on Aging, focuses on the causes and consequences of negative social interactions among older adults. The other project, funded by National Institute of Mental Health, examines the relationship between depression and health behaviors among older adults.

Selected publications:

Newsom, J.T. (2002). A multilevel structural equation model for
dyadic data. Structural Equation Modeling 9(3):431-47.

Newsom, J.T. (2001). Growth curve approaches to longitudinal data
in gerontology research. Symposium presented at the 54th Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America,
November, Chicago, IL.

Newsom, J.T. (1999). Another side to caregiving: Negative
reactions to being helped. Current Directions in Psychological
Science, vol. 8: 183-187.

Newsom, J.T., & Schulz, R. (1998). Caregiving from the recipient's
perspective: Negative reactions to being helped. Health
Psychology, vol. 17: 172-181.

Kaplan, M. S., Newsom, J.T., McFarland, B.H., & Lu, L. (2001).
Demographic and psychosocial correlates of physical activity in
late life. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 21: 306-312.

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Karen Seccombe, Ph.D.
503-725-3616
seccombek@pdx.edu
VITA

Dr. Seccombe is the Director of the Center for Public Health Studies and professor of Community Health at Portland State. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Washington State University. Dr. Seccombe's primary research interests focuses on access to health care as a function of social inequality in the U.S. She is particularly interested in the degree to which the working poor, families leaving welfare, and other vulnerable groups can get health insurance, and ultimately the health care that they and their families' need.

One of her current projects, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), examines the effects of welfare reform on the access to health insurance and use of health services among former welfare recipients and their families in the State of Oregon. Specifically, the goals are to determine how families leaving welfare for employment plan for and cope with the expiration of their one-year transitional OHP/Medicaid coverage, and what happens to them after losing their eligibility for the single year of transitional coverage. Data will be collected from 800 families leaving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), and they will be interviewed twice over two years in order to assess changes since leaving welfare.
Another project, funded by the Department of Education (DOE), examines the relationship between literacy and access to health care. The striking number of persons with low levels of literacy in the U.S. is a major public health concern. This project, part of a larger study of adult literacy and lifelong learning, is based on a random sample of nearly 1,000 persons in the Portland metropolitan area who do not have a high school diploma or GED.

Selected publications:

Seccombe, K. (2002) Integrating Meaningful Health and Welfare Reforms. In Piven, F.F., Acer, M., Hallock, M., & Morgan, S. (eds.) Work, Welfare, and Politics in the Wake of Reform. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press.

Seccombe, K. (1999). "So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?" Welfare Recipients' Perspectives in the System and its Reform. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Seccombe, K. (2000). Families in Poverty in the 1990s: Trends, Causes, Consequences, and Lessons Learned. Journal of Marriage and Family Decade Review, vol. 62, 1094-1113.

Seccombe, K., Battle Walters, K., & James, D. (1999). 'Welfare Mothers' welcome reform, urge compassion. Family Relations, vol. 48, 197-206.

Seccombe, K., James, D., Battle Walters, K. (1998). 'They think you ain't much of nothing': The social construction of the welfare mother. Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 60, 849-865.

Seccombe, K. & Amey, C. (1995). Playing by the rules and losing: Health insurance and the working poor. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 36, 168-181.

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Jan C. Semenza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Community Health
503-725-8262
semenzaj@pdx.edu
VITA

Jan Semenza, Ph.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor of Community Health at Portland State, and Clinical Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at OHSU. He received an M.P.H from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Dr. Semenza has served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. He is interested in environmental health and uses the tools of molecular epidemiology in order to elucidate the link between environmental exposure and cancer. Dr. Semenza combines his scientific experience in both biomedical research and environmental epidemiology to investigate cancer susceptibility and gene-environment interactions. He is also interested in a wide range of other environmental health issues such as water contamination, social inequality and international health. Dr. Semenza regularly collaborates with the World Health Organization on surveillance projects and spends several months a year in developing countries including Sudan and Brazil.

Selected publications:

Dwight, R.H. Semenza J.C., Baker, D.B., & Olson, B.H. (2002). Linking urban runoff with coastal water quality in Orange County, California. Water Environment Research 74(1):82-90.

Speer, S., Semenza J.C., Kurosaki, T, & Anton-Culver, H. (2002). Risk factors for acute myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma: a combination of geographic information system and case control studies. Journal of Environmental Health 64(7):9-16.

Semenza, J.C., Ziogas, A., Largent, J., Peel D., & Anton-Culver, H. (2001). Gene-Environment Interactions in Kidney Cancer. American Journal of Epidemiology, vol., 153(9), 851-859.

Semenza, J.C., McCullough, J., Flanders, D.W., McGeehin, M.A., & Lumpkin, J.R. (1999). Excess hospital admissions during the 1995 heat wave in Chicago, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 16(4), 269-277.

Semenza, J.C. & Weasel, L.H. (1997). Molecular epidemiology in environmental health: Tumor supressor gene p53 as a biomarker. Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 105, Supplement 1,155-163.

Semenza, J.C., Rubin, H.C., Falter, K.H., Selanikio, J.D., Flanders, D.W. & Wilhelm, J.L. (1996). Risk factors for heat-related mortality during the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago. New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 335(2), 84-90.

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Judith L. Sobel, Ph.D.
503-725-5112
sobelj@pdx.edu
VITA

Judith Sobel, Ph.D., M.P.H, is Associate Professor of Community Health at Portland State. She earned an M.P.H from University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Mass Communications Theory and Methodology from University of Minnesota. She worked for three years in the Health Behavior Research Institute at the University of Southern California before coming to Portland State University. She has focused her academic research on the evaluation of public health campaigns, particularly those campaigns that utilize mass media. Other research interests include hearing loss prevention, breast and cervical cancer and drug abuse prevention.

Selected publications:

Sobel, J., Roger, W.R., and DeMots, H. (1992). Reducing the delay in seeking help among acute myocardial infarction patients: A mass media campaign. Journal of Am. Pub. Health Association, vol. 82(4) 616.

Sobel, J., Curtin A., and Fell, D. (1991). The Oregon Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project: The legacy of a mammogram screening campaign. Health Values, vol. 15 (1), 3-8.

Sobel, J., Gordon, D., Kristal, A., Eklund, A., Curtin, A., & Kennedy, P. (1989). The Oregon Breast Cancer Detection Awareness Project: Evaluation of a Mammogram Screening Campaign. In Anderson, P. et al (eds.) Advances in Cancer Control: Innovations and Research.

Hansen, W.B., Johnson, C.A., Flay, B.R., Graham, J.W., and Sobel, J.L. (1988). Affective and social influence approaches to the prevention of multiple substance abuse among seventh grade students: Results from Project SMART, Preventive Medicine, vol. 17, 1-20.

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Lawrence Wallack, DrPH
503-725-5120
wallackl@pdx.edu
VITA

Lawrence Wallack, DrPH is Professor of Community Health and Director of the School of Community Health at Portland State. He is also Clinical Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at OHSU. Dr. Wallack's primary interest is in the role of mass communication, particularly the news media, in shaping public health issues. His current research is on how public health issues are framed in print and broadcast news. He is principal author of Media Advocacy and Public Health: Power for Prevention (Sage Publications, 1993) and News for a Change: An Advocate's Guide to Working with the Media (Sage Publications, 1999). He is also co-editor of Mass Communications and Public Health: Complexities and Conflicts (Sage, 1990). He has also published extensively on topics related to prevention, health promotion, and community interventions. Specific content areas of his research and intervention work have included alcohol, tobacco, violence, handguns, sexually transmitted diseases, cervical and breast cancer, affirmative action, suicide, and childhood lead poisoning.

Selected publications:

Wallack, L., (2000). The Role of Mass Media in Creating Social Capital: A
New Direction for Public Health, pp. 337-365. In Smedley, B.D. & Syme,
S.L. (eds.) Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and
Behavioral Research. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Dejong, W. & Wallack, L. (2000). The Drug Czar's Anti-Drug Media Campaign: Continuing Concerns, Journal of Health Communication, vol. 5, 77-82.

DeJong, W. and Wallack, L. (1999). A Critical Perspective on the Drug Czar's Antidrug Media Campaign, Journal of Health Communication, vol. 4, 155-160.

Wallack, L., Woodruff, K., Dorfman, L., & Diaz, I. (1999). News for a
Change: An Advocate's Guide to Working with the Media. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage.

Wallack, L. (1999). The California Violence Prevention Initiative: Advancing Policy to Ban Saturday Night Specials, Health Education and Behavior, vol. 26(5), 841-857, December.

Wallack, L., Dorfman, L., Jernigan, D., & Themba, M. (1993). Media
Advocacy and Public Health: Power for Prevention. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

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Liana Winett, DrPH
503-725-5106
lwinett@pdx.edu
VITA

Liana Winett, DrPH, is Research Assistant Professor in the School of Community Health and Associate Director of the Northwest Communication Research Group. She earned an M.P.H. from UCLA and a DrPH from UC Berkeley. Dr. Winett researches portrayals of public health issues in the popular press and on television. Her work has focused on conventions of claimsmaking in public health, and the translation of those claims into print news. Her research has explored these practices with respect to interpersonal violence, and breast, cervical and prostate cancers. She has published articles on the application of mass media strategies in public health, and casting violence as a public health problem.

Selected publications:

Winett, L., Lawrence, R., Sussman, G. (2001). Reading Between the Lines on Measure 7. Oregon's Future, vol. II, no. 4, Spring.

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Tony Uliano, Jr., MS, CIH, CHMM
Manager, Environmental Health & Safety
Oregon Health & Science University
503-494-2582
uliano@ohsu.edu

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Center for Public Health Studies
Portland State University
503.725.9095
PO Box 751
506 SW Mill, Suite 450
Portland, Oregon 97207