Hello and G'day from Sydney Australia, and welcome to my personal website.

I am an academic in communications studies who holds a senior lectureship and directorship in health communication in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. After a professional career in the communication industry, working for broadcast media sales and advertising agencies, I held academic appointments at the University of Florida and the University of New Mexico in the United States prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2011.

As the program director for health communication, I am responsible for all core units in the degree program each year, which are typically offered in multiple in-person as well as online seminars.

My research, in general, focuses on understanding how people communicate and understand health to identify community-collaborative pathways for system changes and improved health outcomes. I enjoy and actually prefer working with colleagues to explore issues of health humanities and social practice approaches and how they relate to communication practice.

This is my personal website produced to discuss my writing, research, ideas, and teaching with academic and professional colleagues, current and future students, young thinkers and communication scientists interested in advising, and overall everyone, who has an interest in communication about health and in general. 

I am neither a corporate entity nor anyone trying to sell anything on the Web nor a professional web designer. My thoughts and comments are my own and not reflective of any organisation past or present I have worked for or am currently working for. I am providing this site (a) as a service to those, who like more information on the topics above and (b) enjoy advancing them through respectful discourse and collaboration.