Diane Barry serves as HHD's communications director. She oversees a communications strategy for HHD, delivering key messages to practitioners and funders through brochures, reports, and the HHD Web site. She provides media relations, marketing, and communications technical assistance to many of HHD's projects in health and criminal justice, which includes training community practitioners in media relations and other communications skills.

In addition, Ms. Barry works with staff from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, providing communications services -- most recently creating material for an online communications resource center for their grantees and completing a survey of grantee communications needs. She has 20 years of health communications experience in the fields of substance abuse, mental health, and criminal justice. For the past several years she has taught a graduate health communications course at Boston University School of Public Health.