Benjamin V. Lozare, PhD

Benjamin Lozare has more than twenty years of experience in research, teaching, and practice in international and development communication. He has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Health Sciences Campus of the University of the Philippines, as the first director-general of the Philippine Information Agency, and as deputy secretary-general of the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Center Foundation. He has consulted with UN agencies such as the World Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, and the UNFPA. At JHU/PCS he has led the development of SCOPE (Strategic Communication Planning and Evaluation), a computer-aided communication planning software used in training workshops. Dr. Lozare was an Eisenhower Fellow and recipient of the first Newsweek International Communication Grant. He obtained his PhD in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin.

Phyllis T. Piotrow, PhD

Now partially retired, Phyllis Piotrow was the founding director of the Center for Communication Programs. She has served as chair of the board of the Center for Development and Population Activities, chair of the Population and Family Planning section of the American Public Health Association, and as executive director of the Population Crisis Committee (now Population Action International). She has served as a consultant to the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization. Dr. Piotrow has provided technical assistance and training in more than twenty developing countries, including Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, and Kenya. Dr. Piotrow provides expertise in strategic planning, advocacy, management of communication programs, training in communication planning and implementation, project development, development of print materials and publications, and evaluation of communication interventions. She served as the director of the Informed Choice Task Force, co-chair of a MAQ site committee, and has played a leading role in the development of family planning and related health communication strategies for the 1990s. She is the author/coauthor of two books and numerous articles.

J. Douglas Storey, MA, PhD

Dr. Storey (PhD communication research, Stanford) has 30 years of experience in health education, communication, and evaluation and has lived and worked in more than 20 countries. His work spans a wide range of health communication issues, including malaria, TB, and HIV/AIDS prevention; nutrition, immunization, ORT, and child survival; youth reproductive health, risk behavior, and substance abuse; service delivery quality improvement and capacity building and client-provider interaction; and gender equity, safe motherhood, and family planning. From 1999–2002 he was field director of the COREMAP (Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program) Public Communication Campaign in Indonesia, an award-winning national effort to promote awareness of and participation in community-based management of marine resources. He is incoming chair of the Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association.

Jim Williams

Jim Williams joined the Center for Communication Programs in January 1991 as associate director for strategic planning following more than 25 years experience in the field of marketing and advertising. He has worked in account management for four of the largest international advertising agencies in New York, Chicago, and Washington, DC., including Grey, Benton and Bowles, William Esty, and DDB Needham where he was executive vice president and general manager of the Washington office. His experience includes the marketing of products for Proctor & Gamble, McDonalds, General Foods, General Mills, Nabisco, and Bristol-Myers.

Mr. Williams also has expertise and experience in social sector communications (both domestic and international). He has worked on social marketing programs in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Ukraine, Moldova, Mexico, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. He has conducted seminars in many of these countries in communication strategy development, message design, creative materials development, and social marketing.

Mr. Williams is past president of the Advertising Association of Baltimore, and a member of the board of directors of Baltimore Reads and The Baltimore Opera Company, and he is also the Baltimore Key Market Coordinator for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. He has received numerous awards, including the two highest honors bestowed by the American Advertising Federation, a special citation from President Reagan, and the Martin Luther King Award for public service from Johns Hopkins University. Last year he won an EMMY Award as Co-Producer of a documentary film called "HIV Positive Voices."

Holly Henry, MHS

Holly Henry is a first year doctoral student in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Ms. Henry received BAs in international relations and in German from the Johns Hopkins University in 2004. As an undergraduate, she conducted honors thesis research on soy food consumption in working-class Baltimore neighborhoods. After graduating, she worked as an AmeriCorps Community Health Educator.

Ms. Henry has served as project director on a formative evaluation of Kilimani Sesame, a Sesame Workshop program designed for preschool children in Tanzania, as well as on the Nag Factor, an assessment of nagging behaviors and media use among U.S. preschoolers.

Ms. Henry has also worked as a nutrition policy associate with the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C., where she helped pass four policies to require nutrition information at the point of ordering in fast-food restaurants, and where she pushed federal legislation to update nutrition standards for foods sold outside of the school meal program.

In May 2008, Ms. Henry completed her master of health sciences in health education and behavioral sciences at the Bloomberg School. Her studies concentrated on children, media use, and obesity prevention. Her thesis investigated the influence that requiring nutrition information in fast-food restaurants might have on consumer behavior. She holds a certificate in health communication.

Shauna Harrison, MA, MPH

Shauna Harrison is a third year doctoral candidate in the Department of Health, Behavior & Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She earned her double BA in Latin American Studies and Spanish at Stanford University where her honors thesis work examined the exportation of American media and its relation to body image in Costa Rican girls. She then taught K-8th grade Spanish before attending grad school at UCLA where she got her MA in Latin American Studies and MPH in Community Health Sciences. It was here where she was able to focus her interests in Latin America and Latinos more specifically to health-related issues. She also became increasingly more interested in health communication and the role of the media in health behavior change.