Advocate with Impact: How to Communicate Your Science

Ramesh Raghupathi is a professor in the neurobiology and anatomy department at Drexel University College of Medicine. His research interest is in the cellular neurobiology of brain injury and the mechanism of cell dysfunction or death and plasticity. He has been published by journals including The Journal of Neurotrauma, Brain Pathology, and Neurotherapeutics.

Georgia E. Hodes is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Virginia Tech. She previously was an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Hodes’s main research interests lie in how sex differences in the immune system interact with brain plasticity to drive behavioral differences in susceptibility and resiliency to stress. She earned her BA in drama and dance from Bard College and her PhD in psychology from Rutgers University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai.

Kristin Rosengren is the vice president, of strategic communications at AcademyHealth, where she leads the organization’s public relations, marketing, and advocacy efforts. Rosengren has 20 years of experience in health care communications, and regularly provides communication training to members and advocates during AcademyHealth's annual Health Policy Orientation and similar events.