Jay M. Bernhardt, PhD, MPH, Director, National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Jay Bernhardt is the director of the National Center for Health Marketing (NCHM) at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. NCHM’s mission is to protect and promote the public’s health through collaborative and innovative health marketing programs, products, and services that are customer-centered, science-based, and high-impact. NCHM has a staff of more than 500 in four divisions and numerous offices embedded throughout the agency. Some of NCHM’s signature programs include leadership and management for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Guide to Community Preventive Services, “CDC-INFO” toll free hotline, CDC’s website (CDC.gov) and new media activities, the Joint Information Center (JIC) of the CDC Emergency Operations Center, and CDC’s consolidated graphic design and writer/editor staffs, and coordinating CDC’s external partnerships and strategic alliances. Before joining the CDC in August 2005, he was an assistant professor of behavioral sciences and health education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and the founding director of the Emory Center for Public Health Communication.