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Dr. Cole is a licensed professional counselor. As a therapist, he provides individual, marriage, and family therapy. He has extensive training and experience in counseling psychology, psychiatric epidemiology, behavioral science research, education, mass and interpersonal communication, and public health.
Dr. Cole has been on the faculty at Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State University, and is currently on the graduate faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Cole has extensive experience practicing what he teaches, including working on staff and as a consultant at numerous clinics, hospitals, and community-based organizations; serving as the executive director of a not-for-profit foundation; working as an assistant director of public health in Phoenix, Arizona; and working as a behavioral scientist and director of research and evaluation activities in various centers, institutes, and offices at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, where he now serves Associate Director for Communication Research and Evaluation in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
Dr. Cole was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to serve on the Georgia Human Resources (DHR) Board. In this capacity, he served as chair of the DHR committee that provides policy guidance to the state Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases. He has also received distinguished alumni awards from two of the universities he attended.
Dr. Cole has been a trainer and consultant in the Central Asian Republics, Nigeria, China, Thailand, Kenya, Switzerland, Australia, Peru, Germany, Uganda, and the Middle East, where he has conducted training with the Palestinian Health Authority and the Israeli Ministry of Health. He has been widely published and has made presentations at conferences and training seminars across the world.
Dr. Cole and his wife, Priscilla, have been married for over thirty years and are the parents of five children.
Galen Cole, PhD, MPH, DAPA, LPC, CADC-III
