Joann Rodgers

Joann Rodgers, B.S. M.S.
Senior Advisor, Science, Crisis and Executive Communications
office: 410-955-8659
e-mail: jrodgers@jhmi.edu

Joann Rodgers is the senior advisor for science, crisis, and executive communications to the Senior Director for Strategic Communications. She joined Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) after 18 years as a science journalist and columnist for the Hearst Newspapers, where she won numerous science reporting prizes, including a Lasker Award for medical journalism. A former Director of Media Relations and Public Affairs for JHM, she is a graduate of Boston University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she is a board member and past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing; past president of the National Association of Science Writers; a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); and an elected member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. She also serves on the Advisory Board of EurekAlert and on the Public Understanding of Science committees of AAAS and Sigma Xi. She has participated in NIH-funded science communications research published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, and she holds a faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The author of seven books, including a book on evolutionary biology, Sex: A Natural History, (Henry Holt and Company, NY); and Media Guide for Academics (FACS). She also contributed the chapter on institutional crisis communications for the 2nd edition of Field Guide for Science Writers (Oxford University Press).