Professor Ricardo J Wray

Ricardo J. Wray PhD is Professor and Chair of Behavioral Science and Health Education in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University. For more than 25 years Dr. Wray has contributed to the design, implementation and evaluation of communication programs both internationally and in the United States, promoting reproductive health, prevention of violence, cancer, and infectious disease, and emergency preparedness. Dr. Wray’s research seeks to understand how communication processes intersect with institutional, social and community-level phenomena affecting population health in minority communities. His work applies principles of community-based participatory programs and research, in collaboration with community organizations in the design and conduct of applied public health research.