Brian G. Southwell

Dr. Southwell is a Distinguished Fellow at RTI International where he oversees research to assess risk perceptions, mental models of scientific concepts, and public trust in science and scientists. He is an expert in public understanding of health, the environment, and emerging science. His large-scale evaluation work has spanned behaviors and audiences, including cancer prevention and screening promotion efforts, national campaigns to discourage drug and tobacco use, efforts to bolster television news coverage of science, and various state-level campaigns. Dr. Southwell is also is an adjunct professor of Internal Medicine with Duke University, an adjunct associate professor with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, and an adjunct faculty member with the University of Delaware.