Brittaney Bethea has a hybrid background in social science research, public health practice, and marketing strategy with more than 14 years experience in public health, with 12 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) science. At NACDD, she provides expertise with strategic communications planning across the cardiovascular health (CVH) and diabetes portfolios.

Over her career, Brittaney has worked in a wide range of professional settings (academic institutions, community-based organizations, federal agencies, and for-profit creative agencies and corporations), collaborating 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 Master of Public Health from Washington University in St. Louis, a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Spelman College and is a Certified Communicator in Public Health by the National Public Health Information Coalition (NPHIC). She’s also a Steering Committee Member of the Society for Health Communication and 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 (Instagram: @muralsofatl).