OUR WORK
We partner with health-focused organizations like health departments, universities, researchers, and clinics to produce communication tools. These include creative materials like video, web, audio, and print and digital visuals.
Our process includes literature and evidence reviews, community member input, behavior change theory, needs assessments, iterative development and production, and client input and revision, as well as guidelines for dissemination.
Newman Carpenter is committed to creating and disseminating accurate and comprehensive health communication materials based on best practice. Best practice indicates evidence-based, community-informed, equity-centered and antiracist public health approaches, and we pride ourselves on incorporating those where possible. We work on a variety of projects across many levels of scope and budget.
TESTIMONIALS
"Emily and Kathryn broke down our multilayered project into manageable steps and helped our whole team stay focused on the deliverables. I was so impressed with how they took our big-picture ideas and delivered really creative, polished, and effective multi-media products. I would 100% recommend them to any team for communicating public health research or recommendations."
- Nisha Gottfredson O’Shea, PHD
UNC Gillings Health Behavior
"Working with Newman Carpenter was an incredibly enjoyable and rewarding experience. Their innovative and iterative approach to developing communications - coupled with their deep understanding of public health - resulted in a high-quality product that will greatly benefit our research project."
- Seth Noar, PhD
Communicating for Health Impact (CHI) Lab, Hussman School of Journalism and Media
"Newman Carpenter brings innovative, creative thinking to public health. They produce materials and strategies that help make public health campaigns and interventions accessible, engaging, and successful."
- Kurt Ribisl, PhD
UNC Gillings Health Behavior Chair + Professor and Program Leader at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
"They bring a creative and business-oriented approach to the work that they do. They are able to see the public health and community perspective, with a unique educational lens."
- Melissa Gilkey, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Behavior at UNC's Gillings and member of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
"Newman Carpenter has a knack for turning complex medical information into compelling, aesthetically-pleasing content that's easy for the public to understand."
- Clinical Client
IN THE NEWS
OUR TEAM
Co-CEO & Founder
Emily Newman, MPH
Emily Newman is a public health practitioner and an award-winning television producer with over a decade of experience developing reality TV in New York City. She received her B.A. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, her Master's of Public Health from the UNC Gillings Global School of Public Health, and her health coaching certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. A North Carolina native, Emily founded the virtual fitness network @moveyourbooty in 2009. She is a mother to two wild and wonderful young children and wife to one wild and wonderful musician and writer husband.
At Newman Carpenter, Emily develops and produces creative storytelling tools, designs communication campaigns, and merges public health best practices with innovative marketing strategies.
Co-CEO & Founder
Kathryn Carpenter, MPH, MA
Kathryn Carpenter is a public health practitioner and a linguist and educator. Originally from Alaska, she is based in the DC area. She has an MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching from the University of Oregon, and an MPH in Health Behavior from UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Prior to co-founding Newman Carpenter, she worked as a tenure-track professor in Mexico, and as a curriculum developer and instructor. She was also a Fulbright grantee in Portugal.
At Newman Carpenter, Kathryn communicates with community members, develops accessible and engaging scripts and copy, and incorporates theory into behavior change materials.