BENJAMIN LOZARE (PhD), is the Associate Director and Chief of the Training and Performance Improvement Division at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs. Dr. Lozare has more than 25 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 UN agencies such as the World Health Organization, the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, and the UNFPA. Dr. Lozare obtained his PhD in Mass Communications from the University of Wisconsin. He was an Eisenhower Fellow and recipient of the first Newsweek International Communication Grant. Dr. Lozare speaks English and Tagalog.
