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Deborah Glik, Select Other Member:

Professor
UCLA School of Public Health

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
E-mail: dglik@ucla.edu
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Director
UCLA Health and Media Research Group

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
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Dr. Deborah Glik is currently the Director of the UCLA Health and Media Research Group (HMRG). HMRG performs a range of health communications activities and also provides formative research and summative evaluation for health communications efforts, including social marketing and media advocacy campaigns.


Dr. Glik has over 20 years of experience in conducting research on health behavior change, health communications, formative research, and program evaluation in a variety of settings. She has also conducted health communication research including implementation and evaluation of an FAS prevention campaign, pretesting and scripting of bioterrorism preparedness messages, risk communication for environmental hazards, entertainment media advocacy in areas of childhood disease prevention, injury prevention, smoking and disaster preparedness. Additionally, she has experience in the development of multimedia health curricula for children, patients and providers.


Her areas of research interest include:
- Health Promotion Communication Planning and Evaluation
- Media Development
- Maternal and Child Health
- Child Injury
- Religion and Health
- International Health
- Social and Behavioral aspects of Public Health problems