If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.*

Nancy Atkinson Director of Public Health Informatics, University of Maryland, College Park. Co-author with Robert Gold of added chapter on applications of Precede-Proceed in new technologies in Health Promotion Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill. She was a senior staff member with Macro International in the production of the PRECEDE-PROCEED software, EMPOWER: Expert Methods of Planning and Evaluation Within Everyone's Reach.

C. James Frankish is Senior Scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; Associate Director of the Institute of Health Promotion Research (IHPR) and Associate Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He collaborated with the IHPR, UBC group in producing the Guidelines for Participatory Research in Health Promotion for the Royal Society of Canada, and subsequent documents for Health Canada. Click here to order articles and books by Jim Frankish. Four of his more recent working papers under Health Canada and other grants are available in full-text online.

Robert Gold  has been a professor at Southern Illinois University, State University of New York College at Brockport, and the University of Maryland. He has held related positions in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the World Health Organization, and Vice President of Macro International. He is now Dean of the College of Health and Human Performance, University of Maryland. For books by Gold, go to Barnes & Noble   To order or to request a review copy of EMPOWER: Expert Methods of Planning and Evaluation Within Everyone's Reach, go to Jones & Bartlett Publishers. For a tribute, biography, and annotated bibliography of Bob's major publications, go to IEJHE.

Lawrence W. Green  has served on the faculties at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Texas, the University of British Columbia, and Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and now at the University of California at San Francisco. He has also served as director of three offices of the U.S. federal government and as Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation. For any of 9 books by Green and co-authors, go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com or the specific publishers. To request a review copy of EMPOWER: Expert Methods of Planning and Evaluation Within Everyone's Reach, or of Health Promotion Ideas that Work, 2nd ed., or Health Program Planning, 4th ed., or of Community and Population Health, 8th ed., click here on the respective titles. In Canada, McGraw-Hill/Ryerson Canada. For links to online full-text of three National Academies (Institute of Medicine and National Research Council) books co-edited by Green, click on book covers on our home page. To order reprints of articles and reports from his 8 years at the University of British Columbia (1991-99), go to the IHPR publications page. For abstracts of 162 of his published articles, click here. For a 3-page biography, see Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale.

Marshall W. Kreuter has served as a professor at the University of Utah, director of that state's health promotion program, and as director of a succession of units at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, most recently the Prevention Research Centers program. His recent consultations include work for the United Nations Foundation, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Georgia Healthcare Foundation.  He divides his time between Atlanta and Big Fork, Montana. For books by Kreuter, go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com. To request a review copy of EMPOWER: Expert Methods of Planning and Evaluation Within Everyone's Reach, go to Jones & Bartlett Publishers. He led the collaboration to produce Health Promotion Ideas that Work, 2nd ed. (for review copy, go to Jones & Bartlett Publisher). For review copy of  Health Promotion Planning: An Educational and Ecological Approach, 3rd ed click on the title. In Canada, McGraw-Hill/Ryerson Canada.

Matthew Kreuter is Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, St. Louis University.  To order Health Promotion Ideas that Work, go to Jones & Bartlett Publisher.

Shawna Mercer recently completed the third and final year of her joint Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Canadian Health Services Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at CDC where she has also been a Senior Service Fellow in the Office on Smoking and Health, and more recently in the Office of Science and Extramural Research. She is now a Senior Scientist in the CDC Office of the Chief of Science. Her most recent publications have been collaborations on participatory research and translating the tobacco control successes to the obesity epidemic.

Donald Morisky is Professor  at the UCLA School of Public Health. His website features his more recent work in Asia, but his early work at Johns Hopkins is reflected throughout this website. See, e.g., the bibliography of published applications of the Morisky-Green-Levine measure of patient adherence to medical regimens.

Judith Ottoson is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Institute of Public Health at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She teaches courses on evaluation and led the formation of the Atlanta-Area Evaluation Association as its first President. She has collaborated on the last two editions of Community & Population Health, 8th ed. (order from Barnes & Noble or  Amazon.com). For a review copy, go to McGraw-Hill. For chapter on "But Did They Use It? Beyond the Collection of Surveillance Information," click here.  

Blake Poland  is Associate Professor and in the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. To order Settings for Health Promotion, or to request a 60-day examination copy go to Sage Publications.

Irving Rootman helped develop the national health behavior surveys for Health Canada, was the first Director of the University of Toronto's Centre for Health Promotion, and is now Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He collaborated with the IHPR, UBC group in producing the Guidelines for Participatory Research in Health Promotion for the Royal Society of Canada, and with Poland and Green on Settings for Health Promotion.

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