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Kreps</strong>, Chair, Department of Communication, George Mason University</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gary held the Mandell Endowed Chair in Health Communication from 2004 to 2010. He serves on the Governing Board of the Center for Social Science Research, and is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, the <b>Center for Health Care Ethics</b> and Policy, the Center for International Medical Policies and Practices, Center for Health Information Technology, Center for Consciousness and Transformation, and the <b>Center for Climate Change Communication</b> at GMU. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Prior to his faculty appointment, he served for five years (1999–2004) as the founding Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute. He was the<b> Founding Dean of the School of Communication</b> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstra_University">Hofstra University</a>, Executive Director of the Greenspun School of Communication at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNLV">UNLV</a> and in faculty and administrative roles at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Illinois_University">Northern Illinois</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers">Rutgers</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University">Indiana</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue">Purdue</a> Universities.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">820</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://chrc.gmu.edu/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://chrc.gmu.edu/</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);">The CHRC helps to connect the Department of Communication with a number of relevant external constituencies outside the university, such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI’s) Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, the NCI Cancer Information Service, the CDC’s National Center for Health Marketing, the AHRQ’s John M. Eisenberg Clinical Decisions and Communications Science Center, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health e-Technologies Program, the Coalition for Health Communication, and a number of other important federal agencies and private foundations). There CHRC will be a focal point for plans to establish an innovative new DC-area Research Consortium of Health Communication Programs with collaborations between GMU, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and Howard University.</span></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgba="rgba" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Gary L. Kreps </b>(Ph.D., University of Southern California) is a University Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at George Mason University. He is also the Director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication at George Mason University. His research focuses on health communication and promotion, information dissemination, cancer prevention and control, organizational communication, information technologies, multicultural relations, and risk/crisis management. </font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span open="Open" sans="Sans" helvetica="Helvetica" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgba="rgba" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His published work includes more thant 300 books, articles, and monographs concerning the applications of communication knowledge in society. Before his appointment at George Mason in 2004, he served as the founding Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute, the founding Dean of the School of Communication at Hofstra University, Executive Director of the Greenspun School of Communication at UNLV, and in faculty and administrative roles at Northern Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana, and Purdue Universities. He has received numerous awards and honors for his active program of research, teaching, and scholarship.</font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Research Focus</font></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I examine the use of communication to promote health and wellbeing, especially in response to serious health threats. I conduct multi-methodological, programmatic, field-based research employing a community-based participatory framework to examine health risks, develop evidence-based health promotion interventions, and implement/sustain refined health promotion programs, policies, technologies, and practices.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My work is designed to improve health outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized populations, including those who face serious socioeconomic, educational, cultural, and health challenges. I examine access to and use of relevant information for making informed health decisions. I develop evidence-based programs to reduce structural, economic, cultural, and bureaucratic barriers to well-being, as well as to prevent, prepare for, and respond to serious health risks and crises. My projects examine regional, national, and international efforts, including global health.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Current Projects</font></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ The Global Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) Research Program: expanding the HINTS-USA research program internationally to China, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Israel, Peru, and other countries to inform public health promotion efforts</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ Health Communication Delivery Training Program: working with faculty from the School of Nursing to develop and evaluate a training program for health care providers working with immigrant populations at the Mason and Partners Community Clinics</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">■ </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Communicating about Genetically Modified Foods:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> evaluating audience analysis research to guide design of public health education messaging programs about genetically modified foods</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ Partnership for a Healthier Fairfax: advising a public/private consortium to develop health promotion programs for at-risk populations</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Select Publications</font></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077699016687725" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Kreps, G. L., <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">et al</em>. (2017). Expanding the NCI Health Information National Trends Survey from the United States to China and beyond: examining the influences of consumer health information needs and practices on local and global health. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly</em>, 94(2), 515-525.</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ <a href="https://academic.oup.com/hcr/article/43/4/518/4670710" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Kreps, G. L. (2017). Online information and communication systems to enhance health outcomes through communication convergence. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Communication Research</em>, 43(4), 518-530.</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">■ <a href="https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/jfs/vol17/iss1/3/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Kreps, G. L. (2017). Stigma and the reluctance to address mental health issues in minority communities. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Family Strengths</em>, 17(1), 3.</a></font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p>