Brittaney Bethea has a hybrid background in social science research, public health practice, and marketing strategy with over 11 years of specialized health communications experience, including national communication campaigns funded by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services agencies (CDC, NIH, and FDA). Her work spans across content strategy, applied communications research, digital health tools (web, mobile apps) development, campaign planning, as well as dissemination and implementation (D&I) evaluation. At NACDD, she provides expertise with strategic communications planning across the cardiovascular health (CVH) portfolio.
Over her career, she’s worked in a wide range of professional settings (academic institutions, community-based organizations, federal agencies, and for-profit creative agencies and corporations), enjoying collaborations with colleagues from various backgrounds— health scientists, policy advocates, technology enthusiasts, visual creatives and media mavens—to translate and promote complex health information into digestible and action-inspiring content disseminated through digital mass media tools (PSAs, video games, web and mobile apps).
Brittaney obtained a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Sociology from Spelman College and is a Certified Communicator in Public Health by the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC). She’s also currently examining the effects of various communication strategies on health behavior change as a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University.
For fun, she enjoys cooking, traveling, hiking, attending music festivals and hunting for murals.
