Jean A. Wooldridge, MPH, founded St. Cloud Communications, a small consultancy near Seattle, to focus on emerging technologies for consumer and global public health and to foster strategies and connections between private and public sectors. Jean's U.S. focus includes serving on the new federal Department of Health and Human Services "Healthy People 2020" communication and IT workgroup. Selected talks include "Radical Digital Literacy" (NIH communication directors) and "Digital Literacy: The Citizen and the Patient" (Pan American World Health Organization and International E-Learning Summit).

Jean's non-research publications include invited chapters on bellwether industries and symbiotic stewardships for technology and healthcare for the Amsterdam IOS Press series, edited by R. Bushko, on "Future Health Technology." Jean was nominated for the Distinguished Alumni for Masters in Public Health Program (EDP) at the University of Washington, linking private and public sectors and strategic visioning of online collaborations for complex health problems.

Jean holds research affiliate status at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. She was "loaned" to the U.S. National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, as a strategic advisor for a $57M initiative in communication technologies. Previously, she directed the regional Pacific Cancer Information Service, part of a federal network of call centers, outreach, and communications research. Her teams won over $21 million in contracts and developed the network's first relational database.

Jean serves on the boards of the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) conference, the Future Health Technology Institute, the IEEE Medical Technology Policy Committee and Geriatric Care Working Group, "Healthy People 2010," and AACE E-Learning.

Reasons for hope and joy: FiRe, TED, Pop!Tech, data visualization for planetary decision-making, friends and family, chamber music, hiking (Northwest, New Mexico), and sailing (BVI).