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Kathleen Gardner Cravedi Named NLM's First Public Liaison
Officer
Deput Director of Office of Communications Adds New Job
Title
Deputy Director of Office of Communicationsand Public Liaison,
Kathleen Gardner Cravedi, has also been named the Library's first
Public Liaison Officer.
 "I can't imagine a better
choice for this position than Kathy Cravedi," said NLM Director Dr.
Donald A. Lindberg. "She brings a richness of communications and
policy experience and has worked with a wide variety of communities.
I can say with certainty that her creativity and energy will be a
big boost to NLM's efforts to connect with the public."
As part of a sweeping change initiated at the National Institutes
of Health last spring, each of NIH's 25 Institutes and Centers, of
which NLM is one, has its own Office of Public Liaison. The function
of these offices is to provide the public with access to an
Institute's research activities. They help the public have a voice,
too, in the Institute's deliberations on research directions and
policy priorities.
"The creation of the Public Liaison Office comes at a most
opportune time for the NLM," observed Cravedi. "While historically
NLM has focused its services and products on an audience of health
professionals and biomedical scientists, today we have unparalleled
opportunities to reach out and partner directly with the general
public, as well as through computers and the World Wide Web."
The NIH Offices of Public Liaison are charged with helping the
public locate health information and learn how the NIH works. In
addition, they are designated to be the link between the public and
NIH, creating a working partnership for a healthy America.
Kathy Cravedi has had a distinguished career in health care
policy formation and communications, having served as staff director
of the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging's Subcommittee on Health
and Long-Term Care under the chairmanship of the late Congressman
Claude Pepper and former Congressman Edward Roybal. She served as
co-director of the Congressional Conference on Cancer and Aging and
the first Congressional Conference on Mental Health and the Elderly,
with honorary chair, then-First Lady Rosalynn Carter. Notable
congressional achievements during Cravedi's directorship included
the creation of two new Institutes of Health (Arthritis and
Deafness) and NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information.
During the health care reform debate, she was responsible for
developing over a dozen congressional briefings chaired by former
HHS Secretary Arthur Flemming, and attended by First Lady Hillary
Clinton and the leadership of the House and Senate. Cravedi joined
the NLM staff in 1996 as Deputy Director of the Office of
Communications. |
