Matthew W. Seeger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. His research interests concern crisis and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems, and post-crisis renewal. He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on communication and the anthrax attack and on communication and pandemic influenza preparedness. He is an affiliate of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense where he studies issues of food safety and recalls. His work has appeared in the Handbook of… Crisis and Risk Communication , International Encyclopedia of Communication , Journal of Health Communication Research , Journal of Applied Communication Research , and the Journal of Organizational Change Management , among many others. Seeger is the author or co-author of five books on crisis and risk communication.
Timothy L. Sellnow is Professor of Risk and Crisis Communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.Sellnow's primary research and teaching focus is on risk and crisis communication. Much of his recent research focuses on strategic communication for mitigating the impact of and maintaining resilience in response to potential terrorist attacks-particularly bioterrorism.He currently serves as theme leader for the risk communication research team at the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, a Center of Excellence sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security. In addition, he has completed several federally funded projects for the… United States Department of Agriculture focusing on risk and crisis communication. He has also served on several occasions as a risk and crisis communication consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.His work on crisis, risk and communication has appeared in the "Handbook of Crisis and Risk Communication, International Encyclopedia of ?Communication, Communication? Yearbook", the "Handbook of Public Relations, Handbook of Applied ?Communication Research, Public Relations Review, Communication Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of? Business Communication, Argumentation and Advocacy, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and the Journal of? Applied Communication Research". Sellnow is the co-author of three books on crisis and risk communication and past editor of the "Journal of Applied Communication Research."