Laura A. Linnan

Laura A. Linnan, ScD, CHES, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior/Health Education at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Member, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Linnan received her undergraduate training in Health Education from Indiana State University; a master's degree in public health education from University of Toledo; and a doctorate in Health and Social Behavior from Harvard University.  The main focus of Dr. Linnan's work is addressing disparities in health and chronic disease by planning, implementing and evaluating community-based interventions that are typically based on community-based participatory research principles by reaching participants where they live, work, socialize and play.  Dr. Linnan has been Principal Investigator of more than thirty community-based intervention or evaluation studies funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Cancer Institute, Office on Women's Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Cancer Society.  She is currently Principal Investigator of two worksite-based trials entitled the WAY to Health Project (1 R01 HL080656-01A1 and 5-R01-DP000102-02); and serves as a consultant on several other worksite-based research studies with colleagues at Brown and Virginia Tech. For more than 10 years, she has worked in partnership with beauty salon/barbershop owners, licensed stylists/barbers and their customers to promote health and cancer screening through a series of more than 5 funded studies.  In addition to her research experience, Dr. Linnan has worked in public health (state/local health departments) and in the private sector (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company). Dr. Linnan has published more than 80 peer-reviewed manuscript or book chapters; and co-edited (w Allan Steckler) Process Evaluation for Public Health Research and Practice (Jossey-Bass, Inc., 2002).

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