Mr. Rodes currently works in the Health Communications Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health. He is the triage coordinator for health communications technical assistance and is actively involved in developing and delivering technical assistance. Previously he worked in CDC’s National Center for Health Marketing where he managed the CDCynergy line of interactive health communication and marketing planning tools.

Prior to joining CDC in 2003 Mr. Rodes worked in the private sector at Prudential Healthcare where he gained healthcare related finance and marketing experience and at Corning Franklin Health, where he led the development of a cardiac centers of excellence program. The goal of this program was to help corporate client employees and their family members to access the highest quality of cardiac care available to them. The health communications portion of the initiative included making beneficiaries aware of the objective quality data and its implications; informing them of their alternatives regarding quality of care available; addressing issues of resistance related to longstanding practice patterns and relationships with health care providers, and communicating the benefits of the new program and ways to access it.

Mr. Rodes received a bachelor’s degree from Centre College with a major in Environmental Science. He earned a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Duke University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina. Additionally he earned a master’s degree in Education from the University of Georgia’s Instructional Technology program.