September 14, 2011

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Dr. Noel Brewer

Dr. Noel Brewer

Noel Brewer, PhD, associate professor of health behavior and health education in the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received the 2011 Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill.

With expertise in the psychology of medical decision making, Brewer has conducted research that is “demanding, meticulous, creative” and that influences disciplines far beyond the field of public health, said Jo Anne Earp, ScD, professor and chair of the public health school’s Department of Health Behavior and Health Education.

He has shown that perceptions of increased risk lead people to practice behaviors that protect their health, such as getting vaccinated or screened, but anticipating regret over a bad decision can be the most powerful motivator of all.
 
A Carolina faculty member since 2004, Brewer also has studied how people make sense of the often-confusing health information they receive from medical tests.
 

In 2009, he was named associate editor of the Health Psychology Review and was appointed to the Risk Communication Advisory Panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

 
“Dr. Brewer’s accomplishments are extraordinary,” Earp said. “His research thus far is felt in many spheres and is recognized admiringly by the most respected scientists in the field.”
 
The award, named for Phillip and Ruth Hettleman, recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or recently tenured faculty. Phillip Hettleman, born in 1899 and reared in Goldsboro, N.C., earned a scholarship to attend UNC. He later moved to New York City, where he founded Hettleman & Co., a Wall Street investment firm, in 1938. He established the faculty award in 1986.
 
 

UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

 

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