Online Course Developers and Facilitators

 

 

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David Mould

David Mould, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University, is the course director. David teaches communication for development, media history, international media, development journalism and political communication. For three years, he served as director of the master’s program in Communication and Development, and for five years as Associate Dean of the Scripps College of Communication. His research interests are in film and media history and post-Soviet media. For the past 16 years, he has worked as a media trainer and consultant, mostly in Central and Southeast Asia, for UNESCO, USAID, IREX, and other organizations. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Kyrgyzstan in 1996-97, and in Kazakhstan in 2011. A newspaper and TV journalist by training, he also works as a freelance writer.

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Ami Sengupta

Ami Sengupta, Ph.D., is the course Curriculum Director. She is a communication for development consultant specializing in gender, participation and child protection. Her professional experience spans across strategy development, research and training. Ami has a Master’s degree in International Development from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Communication from Ohio University. She has worked on communication, gender and development projects with UNICEF, Ohio University and UN Women at the global, regional and national level, including in Nepal, India, Afghanistan, Peru, Sierra Leone and Madagascar. She is from Nepal and is currently an independent consultant based in New York city.

Ami will be facilitating Module 1.

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Andrew Carlson

Andrew Carlson, Ph.D., is the course technology director. He is an Assistant Professor in Communication, Writing and the Arts at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in communication and social change, social media and advocacy, online learning and training, and communication research methods. In addition to his Ph.D. in Mass Communication, his educational background includes degrees in electrical engineering and international development, as well as industry experience in manufacturing, media production, and instructional design.

He has worked on SBCC and other C4D-related projects in Liberia, South Africa, Timor-Leste, Kenya, and Tanzania, and has managed SBCC and C4D course delivery at Ohio University. He also speaks kiSwahili and manages in French. You can read more about Andrew's background and experiences at his website: www.andrewcarlson.net.

Andrew will be facilitating the Orientation and Module 1.

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Vinod Pavarala

Vinod Pavarala, Ph.D., is the face-to-face workshop director for the C4D Course.

Prof. Pavarala is the chairholder for the UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the University of Hyderabad.  He has been one of the leading campaigners for the democratization of airwaves in India and has played a significant role in drafting the national policy permitting community radio a space on the radio dial in the country.

He plays an active role in civil society’s engagements with forging alternative media spaces for the marginalized, mostly rural, communities in India. His much reviewed book, co-authored with Kanchan K. Malik, Other Voices: The struggle for community radio in India (Sage, 2007) documents community-based efforts across India to carve out an alternative public sphere.  His research interests are broadly in the areas of communication for social change and community media. He is currently engaged in an international collaborative research project on Evaluating C4D with RMIT University, Australia and UNICEF.

Prof. Pavarala has dual masters in Sociology and Communication and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) and IIT-Bombay, before joining the University of Hyderabad in 1995. He was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in 1998-99. At the University of Hyderabad, he has served as the Head of the Department of Communication, the Dean of the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication and the Director of the Office of International Affairs. He also serves on the Boards of Studies of several universities and is on national level committees on media education.

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Janine Simon-Meyer

Janine Simon-Meyer is a C4D researcher, strategist, practitioner and educator. She has more than 15 years experience in providing technical support and capacity building for SBCC in southern Africa, including through IOM, SIDA and USAID. Currently working with the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Public Health and WHO on tailoring district-level C4D for immunization, she has also co-facilitated the delivery of the School’s short course on planning and implementing SBCC for health and development practitioners in Mozambique, and was joint course examiner for MPH students in Johannesburg. A journalist by training, Janine moved into C4D after reporting on the early impact of the HIV epidemic in post-1994 South Africa. She was co-founder/director of Sibambene Development Communications (2002-2014), and holds an MSc Med by research and dissertation from the Wits School of Public Health.

Janine will be facilitating Module 1.

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Kanchan K. Malik

Dr. Kanchan K. Malik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad (India). Her doctoral work has been published by Sage as a much-reviewed book, Other Voices: the Struggle for Community Radio in India co-authored with Prof. Vinod Pavarala. She worked as a journalist with The Economic Times, New Delhi for two years before settling for a career in academics in 1995. She has published research papers on media interventions by non-governmental organizations for empowerment at the grassroots level and her work has also contributed to policy advocacy for community radio in India. Her scholastic interests include: Print Journalism; Community Radio, Women in Community Communications; Media Laws & Ethics; and Communication for Social Change. She is a Faculty Fellow, UNESCO Chair on Community Media and Associate Editor of the UNESCO supported e-newsletter – CR News, brought out by her department.

Kanchan will facilitate Module 2.

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Adrian Budiman

Adrian Budiman, Ph.D., is the Deputy Resident Director at the Australian Consortium of In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). He has served as a senior faculty member at the Department of Communications, Universiti Utara Malaysia between 2008-2015. Adrian received his PhD in Media Arts and Studies from Ohio University in 2008, an MA in International Affairs from the same institution in 2003 and an undergraduate degree in Management from Universitas Gadjah Mada. Adrian has also served as a consultant for the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD, 2010), instructor for media monitoring at the Academy of Educational Development (AED, 2008), and as the coordinator for the Indonesian Broadcast Journalists project at NBC, Columbus, Ohio in 2007. Adrian is regularly interviewed by popular media for issues regarding social media in Malaysia.

Adrian will be facilitating Module 2.

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Usha Raman

Usha Raman is associate professor, Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. Until September 2010, she headed the communications department at L V Prasad Eye Institute, where she was responsible for internal and external communications, and where she also played a role in adding a communications action and research perspective into public eye health and outreach activities. She has also been a freelance journalist for over three decades, publishing on topics related to health, technology and women’s issues in a range of mainstream newspapers and magazines. She currently is a columnist for The Hindu’s Education Plus, and edits a monthly magazine for school teachers, called Teacher Plus. Usha received her doctorate in mass communication from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA, in 1996. Her research interests include cultural studies of science, health communication, children's media, feminist media studies, and the social impact of digital media. At the University, she offers courses on basic and advanced writing, digital media and cyberculture, and health communication. She is currently engaged in a range of consulting projects on health promotion and behaviour change communication for the Indian Institute of Public Health (Hyderabad), UNICEF (India) and The George Institute for Global Health (India).

Usha will be facilitating Module 2.

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Amy Chadwick

Dr. Chadwick is an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of Communication at the Ohio University. Her research focuses on the use of communication messages to change attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to health and environmental issues. She is particularly interested in how positive emotions, such as hope, can be used to promote pro-social change in a variety of contexts. Dr. Chadwick has a Ph.D. from Penn State University in Communication Arts and Sciences. While there, she received a three-year National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. Before earning her doctorate, she conducted health communication research for a social science consulting company. For federal government clients, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USA), she designed, conducted, and analyzed more than 150 interviews, focus groups, quantitative surveys, content analyses, and in-depth literature reviews on a variety of health and environmental topics. This research informed policy decisions and the development of communication messages to assist community members, underserved populations, policy makers, and state health agencies in improving their community’s health and well-being.

Amy will be facilitating Module 3.

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Patrick Cockayne

Patrick is an independent C4D practitioner.  He has worked on C4D and SBCC strategy development, programme design, and implementation support throughout the SADC region and across sectors, from local economic development, to community-based natural resource management, housing, water and sanitation and latterly in health, with an emphasis on HIV and TB prevention, care and support. Patrick regularly facilitates C4D learning sessions for government communicators and development practitioners in the region. He has recently submitted his dissertation to the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Medicine by research and dissertation. Patrick’s focus currently is on formative research into the challenges facing disabled children and their families in accessing education in South Africa.

Patrick will be facilitating Module 3.

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Suruchi Sood

Suruchi Sood, Ph.D. earned an MA in Communication and Development Studies from Ohio University and her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication (with a Public Health minor) from the University of New Mexico. Currently, she is an Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention, School of Public Health at Drexel University. Prior to this she was a Senior Program Evaluation Officer, Center for Communication Programs (CCP) and Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her career has spanned areas inside and outside academics over twenty years, specifically around research processes associated with the design, implementation and evaluation of C4D programs. She has collaborated with and been research lead on programs with international donors; worked in international projects in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Ethiopia across diverse topics: HIV, maternal, neonatal and child health, child protection, nutrition water and sanitation and adolescent participation. She has experience in researching large scale full-coverage programs geared towards both individual and social change within a variety of contexts – social media, mass media, interpersonal communication, community mobilization, social marketing and advocacy.

Dr. Sood is proficient in the use of mixed methods ranging from multivariate statistical methods to ethnographic visual and narrative techniques. Her research has been published in leading journals including Communication Theory, Journal of Mass Media and Health, Journal of Health Communication, Gazette, International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Journal of Electronic and Broadcasting Media, Studies in Family Planning and the Journal of Communication.

She will be facilitating Module 3.

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Vasuki Belavadi

Dr. Vasuki Belavadi graduated with MA (Communication) in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. from University of Hyderabad in 2016. He worked for about 11 years in the Print, TV and NGO sectors in various capacities like City Reporter, Correspondent, Sub-editor, News Producer & Programme Co-ordinator.  He has taught at Manipal Institute of Communication and Tezpur University. He specialises in video production & has good grounding in radio programming & production too. His research interests include pedagogy of video production and community media. He is the author of Video Production (Oxford University Press, 2008), the first to be published in India. Vasuki Belavadi conducts capacity sharing training in Participatory Video, particularly for children & adolescents.

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Belén Marco-Crespo

Belén Marco-Crespo

Belén Marco Crespo, Group 1 Administrator, is a second-year student of the Master’s Program in Communication and Development at Ohio University. She holds a Master of International Development from Complutense University of Madrid and a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from The University of Valencia, Spain. Since then she has worked in different countries in Central and South America as a Communications Manager for other agencies of the UN and Spanish state institutions. Belén has previously worked alongside C4D initiatives, such as the formation of a community theater in rural Guatemala. She is interested in facilitating Communication For Social Change processes with youth and children, engaging them in community organization and action. Currently she works in the Healthy Living Initiative of OU’s Tropical Disease Institute where she developed an applied research project engaging rural youth from Ecuador in a participatory evaluation.

Belén will provide technical and logistical support to Group 1 participants throughout the course.

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Claudia Nieto Sanchez

Claudia Nieto Sanchez

Claudia Nieto Sanchez, Group 2 Administrator, is a doctoral candidate in an Individual Interdisciplinary Program with concentration in Health Communication and Public Health at Ohio University. She obtained a Master’s degree in Communication and Development Studies also at OU. During the last five years Claudia has coordinated the Healthy Living Initiative, a community-based Chagas disease prevention effort lead by Ohio University's Tropical Disease Institute and the Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research at Catholic University of Ecuador. As a C4D practitioner, she was involved in the design and implementation of a national entertainment education strategy to promote sexual and reproductive rights in Colombia, as well as multiple on-line knowledge management processes developed by The Communication Initiative Latin America - http://www.comminit.com/la. She has been part of our staff in the OU Communication for Development (C4D) course for UNICEF in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Claudia will provide technical and logistical support to Group 2 participants throughout the course.

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Liliana Acevedo Callejas

Liliana Acevedo Callejas

Liliana Acevedo Callejas, or Lily for short, (the Group 3 administrator), is a Doctoral Candidate  in the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University. She has a Master’s degree in Communication and Development from the Center for International Studies, and a Bachelor’s in Journalism from Universidad Del Norte, in Colombia. She became interested in these intersecting aspects while developing the Participatory Storytelling Project. She worked on this project during a summer internship with the Health Living Initiative (HLI), directed by Ohio U’s Tropical Disease Institute (TDI). Lily worked with UNICEF C4D workshop in the summers of 2012 and 2015, providing support- technical and personal- to attendants and facilitators. Prior to participating in these workshops, Lily worked as an assistant for the facilitated online courses offered by C-Change (Communication for Change) in Collaboration with OU’s Center for International Studies. While writing her dissertation, she is also working as an instructor in  ESL and Cultural Studies at Shandong Foreign Trade School in Qingdao, China.

Lily will be assisting Group 3 and providing support for everyone who needs it.

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