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This page is about crises communication expert Dan O'Hair.

Bio
Dr. O'Hair completed his B.A. and M.A. at Texas Tech University and his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in communication. His scholarly interests include academic entrepreneurship, risk sciences and health communication. Dr. O'Hair is also the Dean of the College of Communication and Information at The University of Kansas and is currently serving as the interim Vice Provost.

Dean O'Hair moved to UK from the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where he was Presidential Professor and Director of the Center for Risk and Crisis Management. Between 1994 and 2006 he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at OU. Prior to moving to the University of Oklahoma in 1994, he was at Texas Tech University, where he served a stint as chairperson of the Department of Communication Studies.

O’Hair is the author or editor of a number of books and has published a substantial number of articles and chapters. He has been Principal Investigator or Co-PI on more than 30 grants and contracts. From 2004 to 2007 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the National Communication Association. According to its Web site, "NCA is the oldest and largest national organization to promote communication scholarship and education. NCA has over 8,000 educators, practitioners, and students who work and reside in every state and more than 20 countries." His membership on the Executive Committee included a term as President of the NCA.

His latest book was published in 2009 entitled The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication (Routledge) for which he served as a senior editor and contributor. Dr. O’Hair has served on the editorial boards of twenty-seven research journals and is a past editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research, published by the National Communication Association. Articles published in JACR have been referenced or reviewed by such publications as the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Communication Letter. He has served as an education and training consultant to dozens of private, non-profit and government organizations.

Major Publications
Dr. O’Hair’s research interests are in the areas of organizational communication, health communication, and risk communication. Here is a list of some of his major publications: Scholarly Volumes

Heath, R. L., & O’Hair, H. D. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of risk and crisis communication. New York: Routledge.

O’Hair, H. D., Heath, R., Ayotte, K., & Ledlow, G. (Eds.). (2008). Terrorism: Communication and rhetorical perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Sparks, L., O’Hair, H. D., & Kreps, G. (Eds.). (2008). Cancer communication and aging. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

O’Hair, D., Kreps, G., & Sparks, L. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of communication and cancer care. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. O’Hair, D., Heath, R., & Ledlow, G. (Eds.). (2005). Community preparedness and response to terrorism: Communication and the media. Greenwood, CT: Praeger.

Kreps, G. L., & O’Hair, D. (Eds.). (1995). Communication and health outcomes. Norwood, NJ: Hampton Press.

O'Hair, D., & Kreps, G. (Eds.). (1990). Applied communication theory and research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates Publishers. He has also authored or co-authored several textbooks and many scholarly articles published in journals that deal with organizational, health, and risk communication. A list can be found on his resume.

Annotated Bibliography
Heath, R. L., & O’Hair, H. D. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of risk and crisis communication. New York: Routledge. Over the course of the last 10 years, the consideration of crises and risks and their place in everyday life has become a salient issue among both academics and the general public. Many of the large-scale risks and incidents that we have witnessed also speak to the breadth of both risk and crisis as concepts. Heath and O’Hair state (accurately) at the outset that this volume is the first among Communication scholars that broadly considers risk and crisis as dual concerns. The authors also state that the book aims to approach crisis from the perspective of risk research, using multidisciplinary approaches drawn from a number of social science and humanities disciplines to shed new insight on our understanding of the management of specific crises. The result of these efforts is an impressive, thorough, and comprehensive book on crisis and risk that will prove extremely valuable to academics and professionals alike. While much of the literature in both crisis and risk communication is tightly focused on specific events, risks, and incidents, Heath and O’Hair have assembled a volume that broadly encapsulates our knowledge base on the matter. The coverage and depth offered by this work makes it essential for scholars of crises and risks, emergency management officials, and decision makers within organizations. To reiterate, although each individual contribution is significant on its own, the breadth of subject matter addressed is astounding for a single volume. It is a work of exceptional value to those interested in the management of crisis and risk, and provides a touchstone in the literature for understanding the current state of this subset of the field.

O’Hair, H. D., Heath, R., Ayotte, K., & Ledlow, G. (Eds.). (2008). Terrorism: Communication and rhetorical perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. This book offers the best available thinking and analysis on the topic of the rhetoric and communication of terrorism. Each of the chapters isolates a particular issue or concern and exposes the difficult choices and subsequent processes facing participants in the management of terrorism. By wrapping the analysis in a web of communication and rhetorical processes and theories, the authors develop unique perspectives from which to characterize these contexts. This volume is intended for multiple audiences, including those interested not only in the specific topic but in risk communication, crisis management, policy management and political science.

O’Hair, D., Kreps, G., & Sparks, L. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of communication and cancer care. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. The contributors to this volume provide compelling analyses of the way communication enhances cancer care. It is important to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities involved in effective and appropriate communication with cancer patients across the continuum of cancer care from diagnosis to survivorship. Effective health communication is the crucial link that can provide and encourage cancer prevention, inform cancer detection and diagnosis, guide cancer treatment, support successful cancer survivorship, and finally to promote the best end-of-life care. To influence entrenched health behaviors, communicative messages of all types need to be relevant and compelling, with appropriate and relevant health information that provides direction and rationale for making the best health-related decisions and adopting health-preserving behaviors. This Handbook provides important insights into the ways health care consumers and providers can acquire and use communication to effectively confront cancer.