Strecher’s latest neuroscience, behavioral and epidemiologic research his two books, Life On Purpose and the graphic novel On Purpose and Kumanu, are focused on the importance of developing and maintaining a strong purpose in life. Dunstan Foundation’s “Thinker in Residence” in Adelaide, Australia, to develop a “Purpose Economy” of business, government and communities. In 2010, he won the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Innovator Award. Strecher and the organizations he founded have won numerous national and international awards, including two Smithsonian Awards, the Health Evolution Partners Innovations in Healthcare Award, and the National Business Coalition on Health’s Mercury Award. More recently, Strecher created Kumanu, a digital platform designed to help individuals and organizations live more purposefully. He’s also an entrepreneur, founding HealthMedia, a digital health coaching company that was sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2010. An innovative teacher and researcher, in 1995 he founded the UM Center for Health Communications Research, studying the future of digitally-tailored health communications when fewer than 15% of Americans had internet access. Vic Strecher, PhD, MPH, is a professor at the University of Michigan’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine. In 2011 she received the 26th Annual Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women. Hunter Award, and a two-time recipient of the ASQ Shewell Award. She is the recipient of the 2012 William G. In 2012, she edited a special issue in Quality Engineering on statistical engineering with Lu Lu.Īnderson-Cook is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, Quality Engineering, and Quality and Reliability Engineering International. Anderson-Cook co-authored a popular book on response surface methodology with Raymond Myers and Douglas Montgomery. She has authored more than 200 articles in statistics and quality journals, and has been a long time contributor to the Quality Progress Statistics Roundtable column. Christine Anderson-Cook has worked with the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2004, and currently leads projects on complex system reliability, nonproliferation, malware detection and statistical process control.