Glen Cameron is founder and co-director of the Health Communication Research Center at the University of Missouri, and is a professor and the Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the Missouri School of Journalism. He also has a joint appointment in Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine to study patient-centered outcomes research. He has received many academic awards and honors. In statistical analyses of journalism and mass communication scholarship, Glen is cited as the most published researcher nationally in major refereed journals over the past five years. In 1996, he received the Pathfinder Award for Career Research Contributions from the Institute for Public Relations Research & Education. Glen’s research includes studies of public relations and news production, information processing of news and commercials, and tailored health news. He is co-author of the leading introductory text to public relations, Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics, published by Allyn & Bacon, now in its eleventh edition, with translations into nine languages. He has served as principal investigator or core director on nearly $70 million dollars in funded health and science communication projects, including currently participating in three federal Centers of Excellence.

Glen also has the distinction of commuting by bicycle over 46,000 miles and has used his contracting skills to build a cabin with his family in the Tobacco Root Mountains of Montana.

Amy is the co-director of the HCRC and was formerly the associate director, with oversight of the Center’s projects and daily operations. She has a background in social marketing and health communication and has led HCRC projects on healthy and active living. She has managed a wide array of research and marketing communication projects related to health, education, advocacy and behavior change. Projects have included working with underserved populations, health care providers, adolescents and parents.

A former Peace Corps volunteer based in West-Central Africa, she earned her MPH from Boston University and her MA from Emerson College.

Natalie is a senior information specialist at HCRC and a transplant from Southeastern Missouri. She has a rich background in public policy, advocacy and public health. Natalie has supported state and national campaigns related to policy change, particularly with underserved populations in Iowa, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma. As a community-based behavior change practitioner, Natalie has extensive experience in field testing campaign messages and working with community-driven media firms. She also has led initiatives to increase health care access through telehealth and mHealth and has facilitated student-driven advocacy work through photovoice methods.

She has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Missouri and has taught in Ecuador and Spain.

Shelly Rodgers is a professor of strategic communication at the Missouri School of Journalism. Her research examines the ways digital media allow us to create more effective advertising and, as a result, prod people toward healthier behaviors. She explores health behavior concepts and develops psychology-based theories that involve memory attention and attitudes. Shelly is particularly interested in the processes by which health behavior is shaped by the information and technology that people use every day.

Rodgers’ research examines the effects of interactive communications on audience processing, with an emphasis on how to use the Internet to promote healthy behaviors. She has examined cancer communication, smoking cessation/prevention and tobacco control. Rodgers’ research on interactive advertising has appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Advertising, Journal of Communication, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Interactive Advertising, Marketing Research, Social Marketing Research and Journal of Health Communication.

Rodgers is nationally ranked as one of the most productive Internet advertising scholars and is among the 10 most cited Internet advertising researchers. In addition, she was the 2010 president of the American Academy of Advertising.