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Press Releases
HCRC Director Named to IFIC Board
Columbia, Mo. (April 26, 2004) - Glen Cameron, co-director of the Health Communication Research Center at the Missouri School of Journalism, has been named to the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Advisory Board. The IFIC’s purpose is to bridge the gap between science and communications. IFIC disseminates scientific information on food safety, nutrition and health, working with an extensive roster of scientific experts and through partnerships to help translate research into understandable and useful information for opinion leaders and ultimately, consumers.
“It’s an honor to be named to the advisory board of a group like the IFIC,” said Cameron, who also serves as a professor and Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the Missouri School of Journalism. “This group works to improve the source-reporter interchange about functional foods to provide better news content. It’s a symbiotic process that fits perfectly with the goals of the HCRC and the School of Journalism.”
One of Cameron’s primary duties with the board is drafting the “Guidelines for Communicating the Emerging Science on Dietary Components for Health” with other members of the board and representatives from Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Missouri-Columbia. This document will help researchers work with the media to circulate findings about food and nutrition to the public.
Cameron became involved with functional foods communication research in 2000 with the grant “Component Interactions for Efficacy of Functional Foods.” Funded by the University of Illinois and USDA, the grant research seeks to assess nurses' knowledge and access to information about functional foods and to develop educational materials for nurses in a three-state region. Dr. Ruth MacDonald, chair of the Missouri Food Sciences Program, is the primary investigator at MU on the grant, which ends this year.
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