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Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, came to Emory from the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii at the University of Hawaii, where she was Professor and Director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, from 1993 to 2003. Dr. Glanz joined the faculty at Emory in 2004 and was designated as a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Research Scholar. Currently, Dr. Glanz is Director of the Emory Prevention Research Center, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Glanz is a Charles Howard Candler Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education (BSHE) at the Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH). Dr. Glanz leads the Health Behavior Research Group at the Winship Cancer Institute and is co-leader of the Community Engagement Program of the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is a member of the federally appointed Task Force on Community Preventive Services and was recognized in 2006 as a Highly Cited Author by ISIHighlyCited.com, in the top 0.5% of authors in her field over a 20-year period. Her scholarly contributions consist of more than 270 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Glanz was the 2007 winner of the Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award from the James F. and Sarah T. Fries Foundation; this award recognizes a health educator who has made a substantial contribution to advancing the field of health education or health promotion through research, program development, or program delivery.
Dawn Hall, MPH is a senior research project coordinator at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dawn graduated from the University of Georgia in 2005 with a BSA in Biological Sciences, and in 2007, she received her MPH in Behavioral Sciences from Emory University. Dawn has been a part of the Pool Cool research team since 2005 and has collaborated with others to publish study findings on lifeguard sun safety, process evaluation, and methods for measuring sunscreen use. |
