CHARLES HARMAN

Chuck Harman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on healthcare communications and public relations at the WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism. He currently directs the communications and corporate relations departments for NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill), a national non-profit organization located in Washington, D.C. In this capacity Harman oversees media relations, Web communications, publications and corporate relations activities for NAMI’s national office and its 1,100 chapters throughout the country.

Harman’s other healthcare public relations experiences include positions as a regional manager for a national healthcare corporation, marketing and community relations director of an academic teaching hospital and consultant to several healthcare organizations.

Harman has co-authored several articles for professional journals and other publications. The most recent, “Individual and Professional Influences on News about Mental Illness – An Exploratory Survey of Newspaper Journalists” (Aldoory, Eaton & Harman) was selected for presentation at the International Communication Association 2005 national conference.

He has presented numerous workshops and keynote addresses on the issue of public perception of mental illness throughout the U.S. and abroad. Harman has a master’s degree in journalism from West Virginia University and is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.