Prof. James N. Hyde

, James N. Hyde, M.A., S.M., Associate Director of the M.S. in Health Communication Program and Concentration Leader to the Health Communication concentration within the M.P.H. Program.Professor Hyde currently directs NIH- and EPA-funded research activities that span the areas of prevention and primary care practice, environmental health policy, and tobacco control.Prior to his appointment at Tufts, Professor Hyde spent four years as Director of the Division of Preventive Medicine in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and four years at Boston,s Children,s Hospital as a Research Associate in the Harvard Medical School Department of Pediatrics.He has developed and maintains close working relationships with public sector colleagues at both state and local levels while serving as a consultant and working with federal agencies, including AHCPR, CDC, and EPA.