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Broadcast media has a particular interest with stories that involve risk and health crisis events - contexts where risk and health communication play a vital role. Risk and Health Communication in an Evolving Media Environment addresses issues of risk and health communication with chapters that reflect state-of-the art discussion by

H. Dan O’Hair is Dean of the College of Communication and Information and Professor of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He received his PhD in communication from the University of Oklahoma. In 2006, he served as the president of the National Communication Association, the world’s largest and oldest professional association devoted to the study of communication. He has published over 100 research articles and scholarly chapters in risk and health communication, media management, and psychology journals and volumes, and has authored and edited 18 books in the areas of communication, risk management, health, and terrorism. He has been the principal investigator or Co-PI for several grants from business, nonprofit, and government institutions totaling more than $11 million. O’Hair has served on the editorial boards of over 30 research journals and is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research. In April 2013, he was honored by the Broadcast Education Association with their Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship.