| Name | Galen Cole, Ph.D., M.P.H., LPC |
| About | Health Communications |
| Galen E. Cole, Ph.D., M.P.H., LPC, has extensive experience in public health, epidemiology, counseling psychology, and communication. This includes working on staff and as a consultant at numerous clinics, hospitals and community-based organizations; serving as the executive director of not-for-profit foundation; working as an assistant director of public health in Phoenix, Arizona; and working as a behavioral scientist and director of research and evaluation activities in various centers, institutes, and offices at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, where he now serves as director of health communications in the U.S. Office on Smoking and Health. Dr Cole has been a trainer and consultant in the Central Asian Republics, Nigeria, China, Thailand, Kenya, Switzerland, Australia, Peru, Germany, Uganda, and the Middle East, where he has conducted training with the Palestinian Health Authority and the Israeli Ministry of Health. He has been published widely and has made presentations at conferences and training seminars across the world. He has been on the faculty at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania State University, and is currently on the faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He has also received distinguished alumni awards from two of the universities he attended. | |