Keynote Speakers

Dr. Adewale Troutman was recently elected President-Elect of the American Public Health Association.  He is featured in the nationally televised PBS series; Unnatural Causes:  Is Inequality Making Us Sick?  Dr. Troutman serves as a member (or past-member) of many groups including: the National Board of Public Health Examiners, the Academy for Health Equity, the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Health Promotion Disease Prevention Healthy People 2020, the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, the Board of Directors of Public Health Law and Policy, the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, the African American Heritage Center, and the National Association of County and City Health Officers.

Dr. K. "Vish" Viswanath is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), a faculty member in the Center for Community-Based Research (CCBR) at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), and director of the Health Communication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC). He also chairs the Steering Committee for the Health Communication Concentration at HSPH and teaches health communication courses within this concentration. Dr. Viswanath is the recipient of the Mayhew Derryberry Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) for his contribution to health education research and theory (2009). He was elected Fellow of the Society for Behavioral Medicine (2008) and the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (2006). He is also chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Marketing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was appointed to this post by US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Michael Levitt.