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Purdue faculty and graduate students are very active in the field of health communication research and practice. This section highlights some of these achievements and activities.

The Communication Department is Co-Sponsoring the 3rd All-China Conference on Communication and Public Health to be held at Tsinghua University in Beijing China, November 2008. Participants will include representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Health and the US CDC. This is the 3rd such conference Tsinghua and Purdue have co-sponsored. View pictures of the 2006 conference here.

We are in the midst of the development of a "Health Communication" track in Purdue's new Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree program. For more information download the Annoucement here and contact Jake Jensen.

In June 2007 Hyunyi Cho received a $146,669 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support research on the "Effects of gain vs. loss frame sun protection messages on rural Indiana adolescents."

Spring 2007 Risk Communication Lecture Series is available online via streaming video. Lectures by Max Lum (NIOSH), Sharon Dunwoody (Wisconsin) and Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie Mellon). Click here to access videos.

Mohan Dutta is a Co-Investigator with Jan Van den Bulck, and Dave Gelders on a grant examining the Federal Policy Documents on Drugs. Belgian Federal Science Policy Office. Grant Amount: 249,993 (Euros).

Howard E. Sypher received a "Seed for Success Award" in May 2007. This award was created by the Provost and Vice President of Research to recognize faculty members who have attracted sponsored research grants to Purdue University in excess of one million dollars. Sypher is a Co-PI on a 2006 award ($1,000,000) from the Regenstrief Foundation to support "Applying Principles of Engineering and Management for the Improvement of Healthcare."

William (Bart) Collins received a $350,000 grant from the Regenstrief Foundation to provide support for a Telemedicine demonstration project at a major hospital in Indianapolis.

Erina MacGeorge received a $990 grant from the Purdue Alumni Association to support her research on "What do people with Bipolar Disorder perceive as supportive behavior from members of their social networks."

Mohan Dutta received a grant for $92,529.00 from the National Library of Medicine for his project "Extension of the Genetics Home Reference Consumer Evaluation". Mohan was also honored at the 2006 Kentucky Health Communication Conference with the Lewis Donohew Award for outstanding research.