Best Paper Award
Dr. Lisa Sparks is the Director of Graduate Studies for the M.S. in Health and Strategic Communication
, as well as Foster and Mary McGaw endowed Professor in Behavioral Sciences and she, along with her colleagues, Gary Kreps, Paula Kim, Linda Neuhauser, Carol Daugherty, Mollie Rose Canzona, Wonsun Kim and Jungmi Jun, was just awarded a
best paper award from the Global Health 2012 conference
in Venice, Italy for their paper,
Introducing the Global Advocacy Leadership Academy (GALA): Training Health Advocates Around the World to Champion the Needs of Health Care Consumers. 


The papers are selected based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference.

Congratulations Dr. Sparks!