Kathy Skipper Email & Phone Number

Conyers, GA, US

Greater Atlanta Area

Held numerous local positions with the Georgia Public Relations Society, one of the largest chapters of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Chaired college relations committee, and recently co-chaired Leadership Board, to which I was inducted in 2005 and served for several years. (One must be selected by chapter leadership to join the board; it.

Atlanta, Georgia

Serve at selected times as Adjunct Professor for Southern New Hampshire University. Qualified to teach five MA-level topics, but have agreed to instruct in Public Relations and health communications. Developed course Health Communication and Society. Use Blackboard 9 for course creation and customization, course management, grading, and student feedback..

Atlanta, Georgia And West Palm Beach, Florida

Provide strategic communications and program, project management support to various businesses and entrepreneurs. Activities have related to community-relations-building project, handling NY TImes and Miami Herald "crisis" interviews, preparing staffs for "no-notice" stand-up interviews by local media, training support, general publicity and promotion.

Served as Chairman of the Board for 2011 - 2012 of Medical Reserach Charities, a federation of almost 30 charities that collectively participate to share costs and leadership needed to participate in federal and state campaigns for charitable giving. Led CEO search committee in 2011. As board chair, provided oversight and direction to newly hired CEO and.

My responsibilities included working across health and wellness business areas, including Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Healthagen, Pharmacy, Behavioral Health and dental communications programs targeted at a wide variety of constituents. I developed and integrated employee/internal communications, public relations, media relations and social media.

Atlanta, Ga.

Recently worked with Carter Consulting providing strategic communications planning and implementation in area of environmental health at CDC. Provide turn-key strategic communications support and multidisciplinary program and project management to launch complex communications initiatives. Major strength in writing and complex information synthesis. Recent.

Greater Atlanta Area

Served on the board of directors for St. Jude's Recover Center, an Atlanta-based drug and alcohol treatment facility. As a board member, aided in guiding development of the organization and assisted in fund raising.

In 2011, position transitioned (from below) into a public health advisor position where I performed policy reviews, have designed and managed the Public Health Institute/Office of the Assoc Director for Policy Lecture Series (seen inside/outside of CDC); I also reviewed proposals or releases of information for health policy implications; I maintained.

Served as the acting director of Issues Management for CDC. Managed current issues, linking appropriate scientists to policy makers, legislators, executive management to manage current issues. Managed staff of approximately 30 in identifying potential and defned issues and bringing them to the attention of the CDC Director and the Department of Health and.

Responsible for managing myriad information tools and channels, including MMWR or the Morbidity, Mortality Weekly Report (with podcast) (MMWR is CDC’s flagship scientific publication); EPI-X (the secure communication system between state epidemiologists and CDC); CDC-INFO (CDC’s consolidated contact center and fulfillment facility); the Clinician.

Served as the Chief of Management Analysis and Policy supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Office of the Director, MASO. Supervised three teams of professionals in the development of CDC administrative policies, assignment of delegations of authority, management of organization and functions activity, management analysis.

• Managed communications programs and initiatives for ATSDR, including editorial, media and marketing. Served as senior agency spokesperson on a variety of topics, many health related. Crafted agency positions and.
• Responsible for developing and executing agency communications strategy to convey results/plans for research, sampling, surveys and health assessments. Also created communications strategy to increase the reach and.
• Managed editorial services, marketing and media activities. Smooothly handled hundreds of media queries annually. Created a clearance management policy and the agency’s first editorial tracking system.

While reporting to the office of the chairman, managed the policy development, training, and communications functions to support operations. Performed risk analyses for the corporation. Researched, defined, and trained on "best practices" for service and sales staff. Responsible for increasing efficiencies in service delivery that resulted in cost savings.

Across Nation, Including Wash DC, Denver, LA, San Fran, VT

I was chosen as one of 11 people out of 900 candidates to join the district director candidate development program, where I was trained fhrough formal courses and on-the-job for 18 months in small business lending, loan guarantees, business development, property disposal (from liquidated loans), loan servicing, the 8(A) set aside program for minority.

Served in various public affairs and editing, management and staff positions within DOD including as the Acting Public Affairs Officer of Fort Meade, Maryland; Chief of Media Relations, First US Army, Fort Meade, Maryland; Senior Editor, Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Pentagon. Also served within the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service Southern.

Mba, Business & Marketing

MBA

Ma, Journalism (Public Affairs)

MA Journalism (public affairs)

Certificate, Public Affairs And Journalism

public affairs

Ba, Human Resource Management

Summa Cum Laude; Recipient of Thad Tedrowe Academic Award of Excellence