Brian Southwell
Biography
Brian Southwell, Ph.D., is Distinguished Fellow at RTI International, an independent, nonprofit research institute based in North Carolina. He also is adjunct professor of Internal Medicine with Duke University and a graduate faculty member and Adjunct Associate Professor in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published widely on topics such as public understanding of science, trust in institutions, human memory, and the social diffusion of information. Southwell regularly works with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including as a member of the Standing Committee for Advancing Science Communication, and also organizes national summits and convenings. For more than a decade, Southwell has hosted The Measure of Everyday Life, a public radio show that has translated research for general audiences, on WNCU, a station based at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.
