Glen Nowak, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is also a professor, specializing in health, risk, and infectious disease communication, and co-directs the College’s Center for Health & Risk Communication. Prior to re-joining the UGA faculty in January 2013, Dr. Nowak spent 14 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including six years as the Communications Director for the National Immunization Program, six years as the agency’s Director of Media Relations (including during the 2009-10 influenza pandemic), and two years as a senior advisor to the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. He is an author or co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, ten book chapters, and co-editor of the book Advancing Crisis Communication Effectiveness.