Doe Mayer, Principal Investigator. Mayer is the Mary Pickford Professor of Film and Television Production at USC's School of Cinema-Television. Her work as a filmmaker, media campaign producer, and adviser has been conducted in various locales including the Philippines, Burma, Fiji, Vanuatu, Pakistan, Suriname, and Ghana as well as a number of other areas. She has conducted workshops designed to train NGO members in media production; created social mobilization campaigns for female education, maternal health, and cholera prevention; and published various articles on media campaigns in developing countries. dmayer@mizar.usc.edu Phone# (213) 740 7511.

Barbara Pillsbury, Co-Investigator. (Founding and Senior Associate, Pacific Institute for Women's Health) Pillsbury is a medical anthropologist specializing in health, family planning, and women's programs in developing countries. Dr. Pillsbury's geographic expertise is in Asia and the Near East where she has studied or helped evaluate development programs in China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Yemen, the West Bank and Gaza. Dr. Pilllsbury also heads a small woman owned consulting firm, International Health and Development Associates, which has worked for the World Health Organization, the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and the World Bank. She is the author of many publications related to women's and children's health, family planning and international development. Telephone (310) 842-6828. Fax (310) 280-0600.

Nancy Lutkehaus, Co-Investigator. Lutkehaus is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is co-director of USC's Center for Visual Anthropology and is an Associated Faculty Member with the Program for the Study of Women and Men in Society. As an anthropologist, her fieldwork has focused on gendered behaviors among Melanesian societies in Papua New Guinea. In addition to her recently published book Zaria's Fire: Engendered Moments in Manam Ethnography, she has edited two anthologies of on ethnography in Papua New Guinea. She has worked as a consultant for the Enga Development Program and continues to focus her academic work on the realm of interaction between developing nations and Western visitors including anthropologists and missionaries. lutkehau@usc.edu Telephone: (213) 740-1917 FAX: (213) 747-8571

Najmedin Meshkati, Co-Investigator. Najmedin Meshkati is an Associate Professor at USC's School of Engineering His research in the area of risk management and ergonomics has garnered him awards including the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Award for Research and Innovation, and the American Society for Training and Development International Research Award. He is chairperson of the Subcommittee on Technology Transfer and Developing Countries of the International Ergonomics Association and has written extensively on the subject of the safety of petrochemical plants, nuclear power stations, and aviation. meshkati@mizar.usc.edu Telephone: (213) 740-8765.

Everett M. Rogers, Co-Investigator. Rogers is a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. He has written a number of books on communication, innovation and social change in Latin American and rural society. His more recent publications focus on new media and the information revolution including several co-authored works on television in India and Latin America, the diffusion of home computer technologies, health communication campaigns, and the role of technology transfer in development. He has taught at several major universities in the U.S. and has been a visiting professor in Bogota, Mexico City, and Paris. He has served as a member of the Rural Health Delegation to China and as a consultant of the Food and Agriculture Organization to the National Dairy Development Board of India. Telephone: (505) 277-5305.