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Noreen M. Clark

Noreen M. Clark is the Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor; Professor of Health Behavior & Health Education; Professor of Pediatrics; and Director of the Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan. From 1995-2005 she served as Dean of Public Health and Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health. She is interested in systems, policies and programs that promote health, prevent illness, and enable individuals to manage disease. Dr. Clark has served in numerous leadership positions. She serves as Director of the National Program Office of the Alliance to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes. She served as National Program Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Allies Against Asthma Program. She has been a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She has been president of the Society for Public Health Education and chair of the Public Health Education Section of the American Public Health Association. She has served as chair of the Behavioral Science Section of the American Thoracic Society, as a member of the Pulmonary Diseases Advisory Committee for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and as a member of the Institute’s Advisory Committee on Prevention, Education, and Control. Dr. Clark was a member of the Coordinating Council of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program and of its Science Base Committee, and has chaired the American Lung Association (ALA) Technical Advisory Group on Asthma, and the Lung Diseases Care and Education Committee. She has served on both the Board and Council of the ALA.

She is the former editor of Health Education and Behavior and Associate Editor of Annual Reviews of Public Health. Among other honors, she is the recipient of the Distinguished Fellow Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Society for Public Health Education; the Derryberry Award for outstanding contribution to health education in behavioral science given by the American Public Health Association (APHA); the Health Education Research Award conferred by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for leadership and research contributions; the Distinguished Career Award in Health Education and Promotion given by the APHA; the Behavioral Science Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Thoracic Society; and the Healthtrac Education Prize. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Clark has extensive international experience. Her work has included testing of interventions designed to improve health status, quality of life, and collaborative activity among rural people in Kenya and in the Philippines, and urban dwellers in Beijing, China. In addition, she has been a consultant for a wide range of international organizations including the Ethiopian Women’s Welfare Association, the Ministry of Education in Nepal, the Asia Foundation in Pakistan, the Directorate of Health in Portugal, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, the Synergos Institute, the Community Health Authority of Madrid, and the Beijing Heart, Lung and Vessel Institute, among others. She serves on the board of directors of World Education Inc. and of Family Care International. Dr. Clark served on the Overseas Development Council, and on the board of the Aaron Diamond Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.