Benjamin Lozare

Dr. Benjamin V. Lozare
Former Director for Training and Capacity Building
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
111 Market Place, Suite 310
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
E-mail: blozare1@jhu.edu

Dr. Benjamin V. Lozare has more than forty years of experience in research, teaching, and practice in international and development communication. He has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the Health Sciences Campus of the University of the Philippines, as the first director-general of the Philippine Information Agency, and as deputy secretary-general of the Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Center Foundation. He has consulted with international agencies such as the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, UNICEF and the UNFPA. At JHU/CCP he has led the development of SCOPE (Strategic Communication Planning and Evaluation), a computer-aided communication planning software used in training workshops. Dr. Lozare was an Eisenhower Fellow and recipient of the first Newsweek International Communication Grant. He obtained his PhD in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin. He is now a Visiting Professor, Tokyo Medical and Dental University and the University of the Philippines.