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CHP Lecture: Dr. Suruchi Sood

5/14/2012 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Bellet Building, Room 604
  • Event Type: Lecture
  • Department: Community Health and Prevention
  • Speakers: Suruchi Sood, PhD
  • Audiences: Current Students , Prospective Students , Alumni , General

From Field Experiments to Photovoice: A journey in Health Communication, Program Planning, and Evaluation

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Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Steve Duckworth at smd363@drexel.edu.

Suruchi Sood, PhD
Suruchi Sood, Ph.D. earned an MA in Communication and Development Studies from Ohio University (1994) and her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication (with a Public Health minor) from the University of New Mexico (1999). Between 1997 and 2008, she was a Senior Program Evaluation Officer, Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society and at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Between 2008 and 2011, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Science and Community Health, Arcadia University. Dr. Sood has been research lead on projects in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, covering a range of topics: family planning, HIV/AIDs, maternal, neonatal and child health, nutrition, female empowerment, micro-enterprise and the environment. She has over fifteen years of experience in researching large scale full-coverage public health programs within a variety of contexts – mass media, interpersonal communication, community mobilization, social marketing and advocacy – during which time she has worked on behavior change interventions geared towards both individual and social change; secured external research funding from donor agencies; collaborated on several grants; taught, advised and mentored MPH and PhD students and conducted numerous international training workshops. Her research has been published in leading health journals including Communication Theory, Journal of Mass Media and Health, Journal of Health Communication, Gazette, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Journal of Electronic and Broadcasting Media, Studies in Family Planning and the Journal of Communication.

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