| inHealth grows where the
fields of behavioral science and information technology intersect.
In order to feed that growth, we work intimately with our Key Advisors
– experts who are active researchers in and major contributors to
each specialty area.
Key Advisors
Deborah J. Bowen, PhD
Member, Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center
Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and
Community Medicine, University of Washington
Dr. Bowen brings to inHealth her expertise as a behavioral scientist.
She provides direct consultation to the inHealth core staff and to clients
on the design of health research interventions and other methodology.
Dr. Bowen has been the principal investigator and co-investigator of
several NCI-funded grants and contracts involving communications focused
on cancer control. In these grants she has developed and evaluated interventions
related to smoking behavior, dietary change, cancer screening behaviors,
and breast cancer risk information. She heads the Social and Behavioral
Sciences Affinity group at the FHCRC, which includes 20 scientists and
project staff, all focused on prevention interventions.
Community
of Science page for Deborah J. Bowen, PhD
Robert Robbins, PhD
Vice President for Information Technology, Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center
Dr. Robbins offers expertise in the field of information technology.
His extensive, multidisciplinary background enables him to provide inHealth
with novel perspectives on the use of technology in medicine and health
sciences.
He has considerable experience with the use of electronic media in the
dissemination of scientific and educational information. From 1987 to
1991 he was a program officer at the National Science Foundation where
he developed and then became the first head of NSF's program in support
of database activities in the biological sciences.
In 1991 he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins where he served as director
of informatics for the Genome Data Base. He took a leave from his position
at Hopkins in 1993 to accept a position as program director for bioinformation
infrastructure in the US Department of Energy's (USDOE) Human Genome Program.
Dr. Robbins moved to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1995
to become its first vice president for Information Technology. He is currently
funded by the USDOE to produce a Web site that will help the interested
general public better understand genome research by first understanding
the concepts of classical genetics. He also serves on the advisory boards
for several biological databases and biotech firms.
Dr. Robbins was the Principal Investigator of the WIRES study, a 4 year
NCI research project to test the effects of a breast cancer risk information
intervention through a web-based interactive health communication system
on perceived risk, negative affect, and intentions to obtain screening.
Community
of Science page for Robert Robbins, PhD
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