Name: W. Gill Woodall, Ph.D.

Primary Discipline: Communication

Title, Department:
Professor
Department of Communication and Journalism
University of New Mexico,

Telephone: (505) 925-2316 ; (505) 277-6450

FAX: (505) 925-2301

E-mail: gwoodall@unm.edu

Snailmail:
UNM CASAA
2650 Yale SE.
Albuquerque, NM 87106

Degree, department, university, year:
Ph.D. Communication University of Florida 1978
M.A. Communication University of Florida 1976
B.A. Psychology University of Florida 1974

Primary Research Interests:
Health Communication, Prevention Research, Internet-based Interventions, Communication Strategies for Substance Abuse and Cancer Prevention, Nonverbal Communication, Information Processing and Social Cognition, Program Evaluation Research, Comprehension of Television News, Quantitative Research Methods, Philosophy of Science and Communication Theory.

Current projects and collaborations:
Dr. Woodall is an experienced NIH Principal Investigator, having served as a Principal Investigator or co-Investigator on twelve major NIH funded grant projects in the areas of drunk driving prevention, and Internet-based approaches to dietary improvement among minority rural adults, reduction of tobacco uptake among adolescents, reduction of risky alcohol consumption among college students, the development of web-based Responsible Beverage Service training in both on and off-site alcohol premises, the prevention of drug use, sexual debut and sexually transmitted disease among adolescents, and the increased adoption of HPV vaccine among early adolescent females. He has served as reviewer for the NIH Center for Scientific Review as a study section member and ad-hoc reviewer for 15 years. He is a member of the New Mexico Governor's DWI Leadership Task Force. He has also published extensively in the area of Nonverbal Communication, is a co-author of a book on Nonverbal Communication.

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