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Linda Harris
Linda Harris leads the Health Communication and ehealth Team in the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). In this role she supervises the management of the National Health Information Center, a congressionally mandated source of health information for the public (healthfinder.gov). Prior to her arrival at ODPHP Dr. Harris was a Senior Health Communication Scientist at the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences where she managed health communication technology research projects, including health systems research in collaboration with the VA. She was Director of Marketing and Corporate Communication at Concept Five Technologies. She has over 20 years of experience managing information technology/communication research and development projects in public health and in the private health care sector. Dr. harris has extensive experience architecting, designing, developing and evaluating information systems for consumers and health professionals. She is the editor of Health and the New Media: Technologies Transforming Personal and Public Health. Her PhD is in communication from the University of Massachusetts.
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