Harnessing Technology to Create Meaningful Work and Purposeful Organizations
Thursday, October 4, 2018
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Vic Strecher, PhD
Vic Strecher, PhD has been a Professor in the UM School of Public Health since 1995. He founded the Center for Health Communications Research and has been leading investigator on over $45 million in grant-funded studies. With the University, Vic founded HealthMedia Inc. in 1998, an Ann Arbor-based company that develops and disseminates award-winning tailored health interventions to millions of users. In 2008 HealthMedia Inc. was purchased by Johnson & Johnson. Currently, as Director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, Vic is helping the University of Michigan disseminate research to the real world, improving the public's health nationally and globally.