Barbara Reynolds, Ph.D.

Barbara Reynolds Ph.D. teaches at Tulane University and is a former senior communications and crisis advisor at the Center for Disease Control (CDC). She's author of the book "Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication" and CDC's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication course, which is now taught worldwide. Her communication expertise has been used in the planning or response to pandemic influenza, vaccine safety, emerging disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. She has acted as a crisis communication consultant on health issues for France, Hong Kong, Australia, South Korea, Canada, former Soviet Union nations, Middle Eastern countries, NATO and the World Health Organization.