Public health communication

Saffran is a graduate of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction. An associate teaching professor in the Department of Public Health, Saffran is also the Co-Chair of the Health Humanities Consortium. Her nonfiction storytelling and commentaries have appeared in a variety of academic and trade publications including The Lancet, Scientific American, The Chronicle for Higher Education, Academic Medicine and elsewhere. Media coverage related to her research on authenticity and science communication and health humanities include interviews with Nature Careers, The Colin McEnroe Show (WNPR) and Intersection (KBIA). Saffran teaches Principles of Public Health and Storytelling in Public Health and Policy at the University of Missouri

Stemmle is a professor of strategic communication and the former director of the Health Communication Research Center at the Missouri School of Journalism. He also has an appointment as a core faculty member in the master of public health program. In his role as a professor, Stemmle teaches classes in public relations, health and science communication, social media, event planning and integrated marketing campaigns. His primary research interests include health-related community-based participatory research, tailored health communication, messaging through storytelling and narrative, and non-traditional learning. Stemmle’s work in the area of strategic health communication has been presented to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European CDC, National Cancer Institute, and various health literacy groups around the nation.