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Lauren McCormack

Senior Director, Health Communication Program

Lauren McCormack, PhD, MSPH, focuses on promoting informed decision making through effective communication and measuring and evaluating the impact of health-related information on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Dr. McCormack has studied public health topics including cancer, diabetes, and developmental disabilities and examined health insurance decision making. For nearly two decades, she has led or participated in studies for AHRQ, CDC, NCI, FDA, CMS, and RWJF. Dr. McCormack has presented her findings at national conferences and published nearly 40 peer-reviewed articles in the following journals: the Journal of Health Communication, Health Services Research, Medical Care, Health Affairs, Medical Decision Making, The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, the Journal of Cancer Education, the Journal of Consumer Affairs, and Health Education Research. She is an associate editor of the RTI Press and was a guest editor of a 2010 special health literacy issue of the Journal of Health Communication.

Education

PhD, Health Policy and Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MSPH, Health Policy/Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; BA, Legal Studies/Public Health/Business Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Publications

Communicating quantitative risks and benefits in promotional prescription drug labeling or print advertising — Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety
West, S.L., Squiers, L.B., McCormack, L., Southwell, B.G., Brouwer, E.S., Ashok, M., Lux, L., et al. (Feb 2013)
The Health Literacy Skills Instrument: A 10-item short form — Journal of Health Communication
Bann, C.M., McCormack, L.A., Berkman, N.D., & Squiers, L.B. (Nov 2012)
The health literacy skills framework — Journal of Health Communication
Squiers, L., Peinado, S., Berkman, N., Boudewyns, V., & McCormack, L. (Jan 2012)
Translating medical evidence to promote informed health care decisions — Health Services Research
McCormack, L., Treiman, K., Bann, C., Williams-Piehota, P., Driscoll, D., Poehlman, J., Soloe, C., Lohr, K., et al. (Aug 2011)
Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care: A literature review and the development of a systematic approach — Social Science and Medicine
McCormack, L.A., Treiman, K., Rupert, D., Williams-Piehota, P., Nadler, E., Arora, N.K., et al. (Apr 2011)
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