MARIA ELENA FIGUEROA
Division Chief

Dr. Figueroa , is currently Associate Faculty in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, and Director of the Research and Evaluation Division of the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). Before joining the Center for Communication Programs at Hopkins , she functioned as the Director of the Communication Division in the National Statistical Institute (INEGI) in Mexico . She earned her doctoral degree from JHSPH and after joining the Center for Communication Programs in 1996, she has dedicated her work to the study of health behavior in support of health communication programs in Latin America , Africa and most recently Asia . A native of Mexico , Dr. Figueroa incorporates her developing-world perspective into her communication research work – an example of which is the Rockefeller-funded “Communication for Social Change (CFSC): a Framework for Measuring the Process and its Outcomes.” Her current work focuses on the understanding of ecological, household and individual factors affecting hygiene behavior, including household water treatment. In this area she is contributing a chapter on the Social, Cultural and Behavioral Correlates of Household Water Treatment and Storage for the forthcoming WHO book “ Managing Water in the Home .” Other of her research interests include: development of conceptual models and indicators to assess community-based and social change communication interventions; behavior change indicators for reproductive health communication programs directed to youth; and the role of household traits on health behavior and use of health care services. Dr. Figueroa is fluent in Spanish and English and conversant in Portuguese.

JOHN DOUGLAS STOREY
Associate Director for Program Research
The Health Communication Partnership

Dr. Storey has two graduate degrees in communication and communication research, 28 years of professional work in health communication and evaluation, a solid record of applied and academic research publication, and extensive overseas experience on five continents. His conceptual work in communication ranges from individual health behavior change theory, to the political economy of media and development, to grassroots participation and community mobilization. In over 20 years of applied communication research in developing countries, he has personally used or directed a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including large and small sample surveys, cross-sectional and panel studies, focus groups, in-depth and ethnographic interviews, perceptual mapping, media content analysis, controlled experimental and field experimental studies, participatory rural appraisal, operations research, cost-effectiveness, facility audits, institutional network studies, and observational studies of health service delivery. Dr. Storey has done research on a wide range of health communication issues including malaria, TB, ORT, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, hypertension, immunization, maternal & child health, substance abuse, service delivery quality improvement and capacity building, client-provider interaction, adolescent sexuality and risk behaviors, gender equity, reproductive health, safe motherhood, and family planning. He has designed and carried out research for all phases of the communication project lifecycle from small-scale qualitative formative studies for program design and message development to large-scale quantitative studies for summative impact evaluation. Dr. Storey is fluent in Indonesian.

STELLA BABALOLA
Sr. Program Evaluation Officer II

Dr. Babalola has served as Senior Research Officer at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs (JHU/CCP), Baltimore since 1998. She has over 18 years working experience in international health, education, communication and research in Africa and the Caribbean. Prior to joining JHU/CCP, she consulted for various international agencies in the design, implementation and evaluation of behavior change programs for HIV/AIDS, family planning, child survival, women's political empowerment, early childhood education, adolescent health, and democratic participation. Dr. Babalola obtained her doctorate degree in demography from the University of Paris 5 (Sciences Humaines-Sorbonne), and has published extensively. Her numerous publications include chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals, such as International Family Planning Perspectives, Journal of Community Health, African Journal AIDS Research, Journal of African Population Studies, Studies in Family Planning, GENUS, Nigerian Journal of Politics, and Promotion and Education. Her areas of research interest include: adolescent reproductive health, positive deviance, democracy and governance, and gender issues.

MARC BOULAY
Program Evaluation Officer II

Dr. Boulay is currently a Program Evaluation Officer in the Research and Evaluation Division and Faculty Associate in the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As an evaluation officer, he provides research support for behavior change communication programs in Tanzania, Ghana and in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. While working on his doctoral degree, he was also involved in evaluation activities for programs in Nepal, Egypt, and Zambia. At the School of Public Health, he teaches a graduate-level course on the use of social network analysis in public health programs. His research activities have included a study to investigate the added value of community mobilization activities to a mass media campaign in Nepal. This study illustrated the importance of informal discussion networks for conveying a communication program's messages beyond mass media channels. Early in his career, Dr. Boulay was a mathematics teacher and conducted training for mathematics teachers in Nepal.

NAFISSATOU DIOP-SIDIBÉ
Research and Evaluation Officer

Dr. Diop-Sidibé's current projects include performing a meta-analysis of health communication campaigns in the developing world, conducting research and evaluation activities in Haïti and Africa, and managing the data archiving system she created for the R&E Division. Previously, Dr. Diop-Sidibé developed and managed a resource base on violence against women. Based in part on this work, JHU/CCP has created a website to make the materials and information widely available. Dr. Diop-Sidibé also developed a distance education course in demography to be delivered through the Internet. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Dr. Diop-Sidibé worked for many years at different levels of responsibility at the Centre d'études et de recherche sur la population pour le développement (CERPOD), the internationally renowned regional research center based in Bamako, Mali. Dr Diop-Sidibé has worked with governmental and non-governmental organizations in Burkina Faso, Cap-Verde, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and The Gambia. She also worked in France. Dr Diop-Sidibé has a PhD in public health from the Johns Hopkins University, a certificate in health communication from the same university, and a graduate degree in computer sciences from the Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI), France. She is fluent in Bambara, French and English.

YOUNG-MI KIM
Senior R&E Advisor

Dr. Kim is a Senior Advisor for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Communication Projects (CCP) and Senior Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked over 15 years at CCP as an expert in quality of care and health communication research in developing countries such as Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Ethiopia, Peru, Mexico and Indonesia. Dr. Kim is well renowned for her contribution to frontline research that advances knowledge and practice for improving quality of communication by health workers, as well as empowering communication by patients/clients and community members. Her studies cover a very diverse client population (such as youth, couples, men and women) and diverse service areas (such as family planning, sexuality transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS and general medicine). She has many articles published as a principle investigator in peer-reviewed journals, such as Health Communication, International Family Planning Perspectives, Patient Education and Counseling. In the past five years, she has closely collaborated with WHO in developing and field testing decision-making tools for family planning counseling. Dr. Kim has held a leadership position in the American Public Health Association (APHA) as a chair of the Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (PFPRH) section in 2005-2006 and as the program chair in 2004-2005. Dr. Kim received a MAQie award from USAID for her outstanding contribution in research and promotion of best practices for improving quality of care in 2003. She also served as a council member of the JHU President's Diversity Leadership Council during 1998 – 2000. Dr. Kim has also demonstrated her leadership in communication campaign evaluations, for example in the impact evaluations of the Zimbabwe youth campaign, the Zimbabwe male motivation campaign, and the Kenya “ Haki Yako (It's your right)” campaign to address women's right for reproductive choice. Before Dr. Kim joined CCP, she worked as an Evaluation Specialist at UNFPA-UNESCO Latin American and Caribbean Population Education Regional Program. She also taught courses on program evaluation and advised master's and doctoral students on their theses in education and counseling in Venezuela from 1981 to 1989. She obtained a doctorate degree in counseling and psychotherapy from Indiana University in 1981. She is fluent in Spanish and Korean.

D. LAWRENCE KINCAID
Senior Advisor and Associate Scientist

Dr. Kincaid is currently a Senior Advisor for the Research and Evaluation Division and Associate Scientist in the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has worked in Asia, Latin America, and South Africa. He developed and tested the ideational model for health communication evaluation; tested new methods for the longitudinal analysis of communication impact, structural equation, propensity score analysis, and path modeling; developed the theory and computer programs to analyze the multidimensional image (mapping) of audience perceptions of health-related behavior; developed and applied computer simulation methods to test a new theory of social influence in communication networks; developed methods to measure the cost-effectiveness of communication campaigns; helped develop a new framework to measure the social changes and individual health behavior outcomes of community dialogue and collective action projects; and most recently an elaboration of drama theory and multidimensional scaling for the study of entertainment-education programs. Before coming to CCP, he co-authored the first book in the field on communication networks, and he edited the first book on communication theory from both eastern and western perspectives, which won the outstanding book award from the Intercultural Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Dr. Kincaid has worked in the field of health communication for 30 years.

JUAN SCHOEMAKER
Sr. Program Evaluation Officer/Bilingual

Dr. Schoemaker is currently a Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at JHU/CCP and is responsible for planning and overseeing implementation of baseline studies, conducting formative research, and developing evaluation plans for various specific IEC activities. He has more than 25 years of experience in socio-demographic research, with ample expertise in survey design and program evaluation. Under Macro International's Demographic and Health Surveys program he supervised and monitored every stage of the project, from initial negotiations and preparation of the contract to the data analysis and preparation of the final report. Under the DHS program, he worked in a number of countries in Latin America and Africa. In Mozambique, where he monitored the DHS survey, he led the effort to produce the "Health Atlas of Mozambique", which is currently widely used by several governmental and non-governmental organizations in that country. Dr. Schoemaker speaks Spanish, English, French and Portuguese. His international experience includes conducting research and evaluation activities in the following countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Paraguay, in Latin America; Comoros Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, in Africa, and Jordan, in the Middle East.

SURUCHI SOOD
Sr. Program Evaluation Officer

Dr. Sood has over seven years experience in utilizing qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to design, monitor, and evaluate health communication projects. Her expertise is in studying how entertainment-education programs have their effects. Dr. Sood is currently responsible for the strategic and comprehensive design and implementation of the formative research, program monitoring and evaluation of multi-media health campaigns on family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and maternal and neonatal health in Asia, specifically Nepal, India, Indonesia and to some extent in Pakistan and Bangladesh. She is a native Hindi speaker and conversant in Bengali and Urdu.

CAROL UNDERWOOD

Dr. Carol Underwood is a Senior Advisor for Research and Evaluation at JHCCP and Senior Faculty Associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She has worked and conducted research in the area of international development and health communication for 20 years, 12 of which have been with the Center for Communication Programs. In 1993, she received her Ph.D. in sociology from the Johns Hopkins University, where she specialized in comparative and international development. Dr. Underwood is the lead researcher for the Arab Women Speak Out and the African Transformation programs; the former is underway in Arab countries and the latter in Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Both programs help community members question existing gender norms, explore how those norms influence health practices, and find sustainable, culturally appropriate ways to alter—or, if indicated, reinforce—gender norms to enhance health competence in their homes and communities. Currently, Dr. Underwood also leads the research component of CCP programs in Zambia, where she works with her counterparts to develop theory-informed and evidence-based programs. She has worked extensively in the Arab world and in Iran. A key aspect of her role has been to translate theory and research findings into workable programmatic recommendations. Dr. Underwood has published peer-reviewed articles and given presentations at professional meetings on a range of communication and health topics, including HIV prevention among adolescents, Muslim religious leaders' views on family planning, Islam and health policy, enabling women's agency in the Arab world, and bringing gender into health communication programs. She teaches health communication seminars at the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked in Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Jordan, Oman, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia. Dr. Underwood is fluent in Persian (Farsi/Dari/Tajiki).