Our Experienced Team

Christina Zarcadoolas is a sociolinguist and internationally recognized expert in health literacy and public understanding of health and science. She focuses on analyzing and closing the gaps between expert & lay knowledge and understanding, paying particular attention to how people make meaning out of complex things. The New England Journal of Medicine called her critically acclaimed book, Advancing Health Literacy: A Framework for Understanding and Action, “required reading” for public health communication professionals.

Andrea Rothenberg the Director of Health Education at Mount Sinai Hospital. For twenty-six years she has been providing programs and services to individuals and families primarily in the East Harlem community. She specializes in the area of adolescent pregnancy, parenting and prevention and has lectured both locally, nationally and internationally.

Charles Platkin is one of the country’s leading nutrition and public health advocates, whose syndicated health, nutrition and fitness column, the Diet Detective appears in more than 50 daily media outlets. Dr. Platkin is also the founder of DietDetective.com …

Ms. Vaughon is a health communications expert whose research and program development focuses on diverse, underserved populations who often have inadequate literacy or health and science literacy. She is a skilled qualitative researcher who uses methods such as usability testing to…