Frameworks President Named Visiting Scientist at Harvard University's School of Public Health
Washington, DC, May 14 — FrameWorks founder and President Susan Nall Bales was appointed Visiting Scientist in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She will serve in this capacity May 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
Bales continues to serve as a Contributing Member to the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (
http://www.developingchild.net/), now housed at Harvard's Center on the Developing Child. She will, however, expand her responsibilities at the Center with this appointment, collaborating on lecture series, curriculum development and original research to advance the Center's mission of translating science for public understanding.
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Director of the Center on the Developing Child, who was instrumental in the appointment, explained Bales' role: "We have seen the salutary effects of FrameWorks' unique approach to communications research and applications in the way that the public is able to grasp complex scientific concepts. As scientists, we believe it is important for people to understand how early childhood and early brain development work, and what is at stake for society in making this process go well for all our nation's children. We have become convinced that we cannot meet this challenge without the contributions of the social and cognitive sciences to the work we do. Susan Bales bridges these worlds by taking the translation of science into experimental research and bringing back empirically-based ways to communicate early child development. We look forward to working with her more closely, and to making the FrameWorks approach to communications a hallmark of our work at Harvard."
The FrameWorks Institute is a national nonprofit think tank devoted to framing public issues. Its work is based on Strategic Frame Analysis ™, a multi-method, multi-disciplinary approach to empirical research. FrameWorks designs, commissions, publishes, explains and applies communications research to prepare nonprofit organizations to expand their constituency base, to build public will, and to further public understanding of specific social issues -- the environment, government, race, children's issues and health care, among others. Its work is unique in its breadth - from qualitative, quantitative and experimental research to applied communications toolkits, advertising campaigns, regional and on-line workshops, and active list-serv discussion groups.
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