International Health Humanities Network Membership
Olaf Werder
Dr. Olaf Werder holds a lectureship in strategic and health communication at the Media and Communications Department of the University of Sydney, Australia after having held positions at the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico In the USA. Prior to his academic appointment, he has worked in the communication industry on the media and agency side in two countries for about ten years.
He is an affiliated researcher at the Charles Perkins Centre (the interdisciplinary research collaborations surrounding obesity prevention), a research network member on infectious disease prevention (SIBRN), and a former executive board member of the Australian Association of Social Marketing.
His current research interests are centred on public risk perception, social ecological modelling of message responses, community-based participation research (CBPR), analysis of obesity intervention campaigns, socio-cultural understanding of health in population and media, drivers of policy, and effective coordination of agencies’ response to disease outbreaks and unhealthy lifestyle choices with the aim to identify pathways through which context, partnerships, and interventions lead to specific system changes and health outcomes with an emphasis of community collaborative approaches.
Humanities Subjects
- Communication studies
- Storytelling
- Technology
Health Care Areas
- Community health
- Global health
- Health education
- Health lifestyle
- Health literacy
- Health promotion
- Healthy communities
- Healthy environment
- Obesity
- Prevention
- Problem solving
- Public health
- Social determinants of health
- Social well-being
Olaf's Blog Entries
- CfP - Narratives on Trauma, Illness and Loss
(Date Created: Wednesday 12th October 2016) - University of Sydney - New Health Humanities Group in Australia
(Date Created: Thursday 10th December 2015) - Inaugural Health Humanties Meeting in Sydney, Australia
(Date Created: Monday 16th February 2015) - University of Sydney Health Humanities
(Date Created: Wednesday 8th October 2014)