Lisa Newbern
Chief, Public Affairs
Yerkes National Primate Research Center
lmnewbe@emory.edu
404-727-7709 Office
Lisa Newbern is Chief of Public Affairs for the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, one of only eight National Institutes of Health-funded national primate research centers. During her 20 years of health-care communications experience, she has worked as a strategist, program director and client services manager, all of which relied on her strategic focus and strong writing/editing, media relations, special event, client service and issues management skills.
As the lead communication officer for the Yerkes Research Center, Newbern is responsible for increasing recognition of the center as a premier research facility critical to advancing science and improving health.
Her professional experience also includes working for a leading international public relations agency, where she designed and managed numerous consumer-marketing programs and helped strengthen working relationships between the agency's international offices on behalf of clients with worldwide programs. In addition, she worked for the headquarters office of a national non-profit organization, where she developed and implemented national public relations campaigns, including media relations and public service advertising programs.
At Emory, Newbern is the 2009-10 chair of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. She also is leader of the university's lactation support program, a member of the Center for Women Advisory Board and a member of the Work-Life Advisory Group. She was one of only 12 recipients of the university's 2007 Award of Distinction, the highest award the university bestows upon staff, and served as chair of the 2009 selection committee.
Newbern is a member of the Public Relations Society of America for which she currently is serving as co-chair of the Chapter Awards committee, has more than 500 hours as a volunteer at Atlanta's leading children's hospital and is active in the Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta.
