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The APHA Health Communication Working Group (HCWG) is part of the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Public Health Education and Health Promotion (PHEHP) section, and - within the APHA - the leading advocate for, and authority on, the use of communication and marketing approaches to improve the public's health.
The HCWG Steering Committee
Emily Lilo, PhD, MPH
Chair
Emily A. Lilo, PhD, MPH is a public health scientist and social and behavior change communication specialist. Dr. Lilo has 12 years of experience delivering community-engaged and clinical research interventions in the U.S. and Latin America. She has experience working in the private and public sectors as well as in academia to improve health and environmental outcomes, with a strong background in fostering coalitions and building capacity to support community and youth driven health projects. Dr. Lilo currently holds a position as an Assistant Professor of Community Health in the Division of Health and Exercise Science at Western Oregon University.
Jeanine Guidry, PhD, MS, MPS
Incoming Chair
Originally from the Netherlands, Dr. Jeanine Guidry is an assistant professor at the Robertson School of Media and Culture, an affiliate graduate researcher at the Media+Health Initiative, and a member of the Institute for Women’s Health (IWH) Sexual and Domestic Violence Research Development Group, all at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Her research focuses on the use of visual social media, mobile technology, and message design in health, risk, and crisis communications, and her dissertation research studied effective message design development for the future Zika vaccine. She regularly presents her work at national and international conferences, such as the International Communications Association (ICA) conference, the DC Health Communication (DCHC) conference, the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference, the EUPRERA (European PR) conference, AEJMC, IPRRC, and the European Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH) Conference. Additionally, her work has been published in Public Relations Review, Vaccine, the Journal of Social Marketing, Health Communication, PRism, and Communication Teacher.
Jeanine received her PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Department of Health Behavior and Policy in the School of Medicine at VCU, her MS in Health Sciences from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and her MPS in Strategic Public Relations from George Washington University.
Tamar Ginossar, PhD
Immediate Past Chair, Nominations Committee Chair
Tamar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism and the BA/MD Program, Adjunct Research Professor at the Prevention Research Center, and Associate Member of the University of New Mexico Cancer Center. She is committed to leading research on the development, assessment, dissemination, and implementation of health promotion interventions. Specifically, she leads research on reducing cancer-related health disparities in community and clinic-based settings using diverse communication modalities. Her background in health communication methods is broad and includes message testing, in-depth interviews, focus groups, surveys, and conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses of health communication. Her recent research projects centered on the role of communication in reducing health disparities—including eHealth, mHealth and participatory social marketing. Her research utilizes community-engaged, mixed-methods approaches. She led the New Mexico state-wide HIV Services Needs Assessment to examine service provision, needs, and gaps in Ryan-White funded agencies, and she continues to lead research on cancer communication.
Kevin John, PhD, MA
Treasurer
Kevin is an Assistant Professor and Director of Biometric Research at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. He specializes in Health Communication and has active research lines in skin cancer, substance use, and body image issues. Before entering academia, Kevin worked at a public relations firm in Washington, DC, and an educational software company in Salt Lake City, UT. Outside of work and the Biometrics Lab, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids, riding his motorcycle, and doing ethnographic “research” on video games.
Amanda Capitummino, BS, CHES
Secretary
Amanda is an MPH student at Johns Hopkins University graduating in May 2019 with certificates in Injury and Violence Prevention and Health Communication. As a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow in the violence focus area, she will be returning to her collaborating organization, Sitkans Against Family Violence, in Sitka, Alaska. There, Amanda will continue her work in the primary prevention of intimate partner, sexual, and teen dating violence
Jiun-Yi (Jenny) Tsai, PhD
Social Committee Chair
Jenny is an assistant professor of Strategic Communication at the Northern Arizona University. Her research focuses on risk and health communication, media processes and effects, and social media engagement. Specifically, she examines the influence of mediated messages on health and risk management. Currently, she is the Co-Investigator of the Mind Matters Research supported by the NCAA-Department of Defense. This project employs a multi-dimension, mixed method approach to uncover how individual-level variables, organizational culture, and cultural narrative interact to affect concussion reporting among college athletes. She earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lisa Paradis, MPH
Professional Development Committee Chair
Lisa has more than 15 years of experience writing and editing for public health audiences on a variety of topics, particularly on cancer, health policy, women’s health, and aging and caregiving. Most recently, she worked at the National Institutes of Health for a federal advisory committee to the White House on cancer policy, where she has served as federal lead on content development for reports to the U.S. President and on digital strategy and engagement initiatives. Lisa is also an adjunct instructor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She has additional experience providing strategic communication consultation for community health organizations and public health advocacy efforts. Lisa has an MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine and a BS in rehabilitation and human services from Boston University.
Meghan Moran, PhD
Communications Committee Chair
TBN
Fundraising Committee Chair
Linda Bergonzi-King, MPH
APHA Global Public Health Film Festival Chair
Linda is a Producer/Director/Health Communication Expert and Social Entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience creating a wide range of video programs, educational tools, and communications with a particular emphasis on health, well-being, social justice, edutainment, and community development. Linda also produces online and instructor-led educational courses, most recently on utility safety programs, public health preparedness, palliative care, and disease prevention. She graduated from the Yale School of Public Health with an emphasis on Health Communication and Health Policy. Linda's clients include Yale New Haven Health System, Connecticut Hospice, and Eversource Energy, among many others. She also teaches high school and undergraduate courses on multiple topics related to health communication, interpersonal communication, and media relations/literacy. Her production experience covers all facets of production—conceptualization, script writing, casting, field and studio shoots, and editing. Linda's clients enjoy her fresh approach to public health issues through the use of storytelling and animation. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.
Nan Martin, MPH, PhD
Program Planning Committee Chair
Dr. Nan Martin received her Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in 2015. She received her M.P.H. in health behavior and health education at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 2009. Her primary research interest is focused on the understanding of the health and social well-being of multiethnic urban neighborhoods. Her previous research efforts explored social influence, information seeking, and the potential of local and ethnic communication resources in reducing health disparities.
A. Susana Ramírez, PhD, MPH
Awards Committee Chair
Susana is a social scientist whose research at the intersection of communication science, public health, and Latino health focuses on communication in the service of social justice and health equity. She is an expert in mixed methods to understand the multiple levels of communication influence on health behaviors and to reduce health disparities among Latino populations across the acculturation spectrum. Susana is currently an Assistant Professor of Public Health Communication at the University of California in Merced. She completed a Cancer Prevention Fellowship (postdoctoral) in the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. She earned a PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, an MPH from Harvard University, and a BA in Communication from Santa Clara University.
Tammy Pilisuk, MPH
Health Communication Matters Webinar Series
Tammy has been with the California Dept of Public Health, Immunization Branch since 2000. Since that time, Tammy has been involved with a variety of projects and campaigns focusing on immunization informing such as HPV vaccine, respiratory disease prevention, the immunization registry, and the particular challenge of communicating with vaccine-hesitant parents, including a story-telling project on vaccine-preventable diseases called “Shot by Shot.”
Tammy is on California’s State Cervical Cancer Workgroup, the National HPV Roundtable, and is on a workgroup for a new California Adolescent Health Initiative. She serves on the Steering Committee for HCWG and also serves as an APHA Governing Councilor.
In her spare time, she is a volunteer policy advocate for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and a jazz singer. Tammy received her MPH from UC Berkeley more years ago than she’d like to admit and has a BA from UC Santa Cruz.
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