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H. Dan OHair


Title: Professor
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Email: (deceased, 2023)
Website: https://comm.uky.edu/ohair

Education

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Specialties

Organizational Communication, Health Communication, and Risk Communication.

Bio

Dr. Dan O’Hair received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in communication. In 2006, he served as the President of the National Communication Association. He has published over 100 research articles and scholarly chapters in risk and health communication, media management, and psychology journals and volumes, and has authored and edited 25 books in the areas of communication, risk management, health communication, and terrorism. His latest edited book is entitled Communicating Science in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 (2021) by Wiley Blackwell. From 2009-2018, O’Hair served as dean of the College of Communication and Information at UK.