About the Center

The Department of Communication at George Mason University houses the new Center for Health and Risk Communication (CHRC). (read more)

Founding Scholars

Gary L. Kreps (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1979) is the founding Chair of the Center for Health & Risk Communication (read more)

2011 GMU Health Communication Conference

Thank you to our major sponsor
Personal Care Products Council
and to
Urban Communication Foundation
for their generous
support of this conference!

10/15/2010

The 1st biennial D. C. Health Communication Conference (the DCHC) will be held April 29 to May 1 2011 at the George Mason Inn, located on the beautiful George Mason University campus  in Fairfax, VA.  The conference theme is "Designing for Health."  The conference will examine how design of new communication educational, technological, and environmental interventions can promote health and well-being. (read more)

Click here for conference information

Funded Center Projects

The Center is currently working on numerous projects designed to better health and the health industry.

• Assessing How Private Insurers Market Their Health Plans to Medicare Beneficiaries (read more)

• Proposal for Contract Training for the CDC School of Public Health
  Education and Communication (read more)

• Design, Develop, Evaluate and Distribute a Mulitmedia Health Literacy Training Program for HRSA Grantees Using an Interactive Web Site and Interactive DVD (read more)