HRA Executive Director

Shelley Martin, MPH, CHES, is the Executive Director and Editor in Chief of Health Research for Action (HRA). She provides leadership, nationally and internationally, to develop multilingual health communication initiatives, with a focus on parents and young children, caregivers, and older adults. Shelley is also a contributing author of HRA's accessible and user-friendly publications. She received the 2002 B. Holzer Health Literacy Award for published materials from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and the Chancellor's 2001-2002 Award for University-Community Partnerships. She was awarded the Pratt Fellowship in 2005 to promote community empowerment in Australia. Shelley is a graduate of the 2007 Global Health Leadership Forum, a joint offering of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, bringing together senior health care leaders to improve health care systems worldwide. She has helped design and disseminate international health literacy and wellness initiatives in Australia, Canada, and Switzerland. She joined HRA in 1990 after an extensive career in health promotion and consultation that included national training on HIV/AIDS prevention, improving access to health care for rural Americans, and developing the Medical Home Training model for Head Start.