We specialize in evidence-based health communication to help clients reach individuals, communities, and larger networks and populations.
Natalie Hampton, MPH
Interim Director
Natalie is the acting director 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.
Andria Caruthers, MPH, MA
Senior Communications Specialist
Andria Caruthers graduated with dual masters degrees in public health and journalism from the University of Missouri. She has a background in health promotion, health literacy, and strategic communication, and has worked on public health projects domestically and abroad. As a research assistant for Mizzou’s Department of Occupational Therapy she evaluated physician-patient communication and written materials for rehabilitation centers in Columbia and St. Louis. Most recently, she worked at a non-profit, People’s Hope Japan in Chiang Mai, Thailand where she contributed to the organization’s communication and outreach activities in Northern Thailand. She joined the Health Communication Research Center as a Smith/Patterson Fellow in June 2015.
Glen T. Cameron, PhD
Founder, Senior Advisor
Glen T. Cameron is founder and senior advisor 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.
Jon Stemmle, MA
Senior Advisor
Jon is a senior advisor and former director of the Health Communication Research Center at the Missouri School of Journalism and chair of strategic communication. Since joining the HCRC at its founding in 2003, Jon led a variety of health communication projects on topics such as cancer prevention, health and science literacy, telehealth and photovoice. He now is an adviser to the Center and its projects.
His primary research interests involve health-related community-based participatory research, tailored health communication and non-traditional learning. Jon’s work in the area of strategic health communication has been presented to the CDC, European CDC, NCI and various health literacy groups around the nation. His research has been published in a wide array of journals including the Journal of Health Communication, Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare and the Journal of Interactive Advertising.