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20th Annual
Art & Science of
Health Promotion Conference
What Works Good, Better, Best in Health Promotion?
March 15-19, 2010
Intensive Training Seminars: March 15 -16, Core
Conference: March 17-19
The Westin
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
KEYNOTES
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James Fowler, PhD
Associate Professor, University of
California - San Diego
Connected! The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and
How They Shape Our Lives
Sponsored by HealthMedia
James H. Fowler is a leading authority on how social networks help to
shape human behavior and welfare. He is the coauthor of
Connected:
The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our
Lives. Connected explains how social networks form and operate and
describes the profound influence they have on our tastes, health,
wealth, happiness, beliefs and even weight. How we feel, what we
know, who we marry, whether we fall ill, how much money we make, and
whether we vote all depend on our social networks-our friends, our
friends' friends, and beyond-as much as on our individual backgrounds
and choices. James Fowler has become internationally renowned for
discovering how our social networks drive and shape aspects of our lives
that we would never suspect.
James Fowler is an Associate Professor in the Center for Wireless and
Population Health Systems at the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2) and Associate
Professor of Political Science at the University of California-San
Diego. His work has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good
Morning America, Today, and The Colbert Report, and on the front pages
of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington
Post, and USA Today.
Professor Fowler is also an expert on Stephen Colbert. His funny and
engaging article "The Colbert Bump: More Truthful than Truthy" shows
that political candidates who appeared on The Colbert Report receive a
significant bump in campaign donations in the 30 days following their
appearance on the show.
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David Bornstein
Author
How to Change the World
David Bornstein specializes in writing
about social innovation. He is the author of How to Change the World:
Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Oxford University
Press) which was described by The New York Times as "must reading" for
"anyone who cares about building a more equitable and stable world" and
a "bible" in its field. The book, which has been published (or is in the
process of being published) in 20 languages, chronicles and analyzes the
work of social innovators who are successfully addressing social
problems at scale in several countries. Bornstein's first book, The
Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank, traces the history of
the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Grameen Bank during its first 20 years and
describes the global emergence of the now-famous anti-poverty strategy
known as "micro-finance." Bornstein grew up in Montreal, Canada and now
lives in New York City with his wife and son. He is currently at work on
a book exploring the growth and implications of social entrepreneurship
in the United States and Canada, and is developing a website that will
serve as a tool for the discovery of solutions to major social problems.
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David Hunnicutt, PhD
President, Wellness Council of America
What Indeed Does Work Good, Better, Best?
Dr. David Hunnicutt is the President of
The
Wellness Councils of America. With its national headquarters
located in Omaha, NE, WELCOA is dedicated to helping American business
create a healthier and more productive workforce. By helping
companies of all sizes improve employee health, contain healthcare
costs, and increase productivity, WELCOA has established itself as one
of the premier worksite wellness organizations in the U.S.
Dr. Hunnicutt has written, edited, and produced more than a
dozen books, including a best-selling medical self-care book that has
sold more than 500,000 copies. David also serves as WELCOA's Executive
Editor of
Absolute Advantage, a national corporate wellness magazine and
The Well Workplace, an award-winning employee health newsletter that
is now in its tenth year of publication. Under David's direction,
WELCOA publications have received numerous prestigious awards from the
National Health Information Resource Center which recognizes the best
consumer and corporate health information in the U.S
Dr. Hunnicutt's address will provide a
summary of the important findings of the conference sessions and
sketch a blue print of where we need to go as a field to make our
programs as effective as possible.
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