Bio:
Gary Kreps is the Eileen and Steve Mandell Professor of Health Communication at George Mason University, where he is chair of the Department of Communication and director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication. Gary’s research focuses on health promotion, risk prevention, health care, and social change. He has published more than 40 books and edited volumes, and more than 220 scholarly articles and chapters concerning the applications of communication knowledge in society. He has received many awards for his scholarship including the Pfizer Professorship of Clear Health Communication, the Robert Lewis Donohew Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award, the Future of Health Technology Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in Consumer Health Informatics and Online Health, and the Gerald M. Phillips Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship Award. Before coming to Mason, he served as the founding chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NIH), founding dean of the School of Communication at Hofstra University, executive director of the Greenspun School of Communication at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and as a professor at Northern Illinois, Rutgers, Indiana, and Purdue universities.
Education:
BA (’75), Communication, University of Colorado
MA (’76), Communication, University of Colorado
PhD (’79), Communication, University of Southern California
Selected publications:
Kreps, G. L. & Maibach, E. W. (in press). Transdisciplinary science: The nexus between communication and public health. Journal of Communication.
Kreps, G.L. (in press). The central role of strategic health communication in enhancing breast cancer outcomes across the continuum of care in limited-resource countries. Cancer.
Kreps, G.L. (in press). Health communication at the population level – Principles, methods and results. In L. Epstein (Ed.) Culturally Competent Health Care. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, The Israel National Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research.
Kreps, G. L. (2008). Strategic use of communication to market cancer prevention and control to vulnerable populations. Health Marketing Quarterly, 25(1/2).
Kreps, G. L., & Sparks, L. (2008). Meeting the health literacy needs of vulnerable populations. Patient Education and Counseling, 71(3), 328-332.
Neuhauser, L., & Kreps, G.L. (2008). Online cancer communication interventions: Meeting the literacy, linguistic, and cultural needs of diverse audiences. Patient Education and Counseling, 71(3), 365-377.
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Contact:
gkreps@gmu.edu
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