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Kingston, RI 02881
Telephone: 401-874-9016
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Email:maryhealey@mail.uri.edu

Mary Healey Jamiel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island. She serves jointly in Film Media and Communication Studies. She arrived at the University in 1996 and has developed documentary and film courses for Communication Studies and the Film Media program. In 2008 she served on the National Screening Committee convened by the Institute of International Education to select Fulbright scholars.

Mary Healey Jamiel produced and directed a variety of nationally launched projects, including animations, PSAs for commercial television, music videos and interactive multimedia projects for the National Institute of Health, in conjunction with the Cancer Prevention Research Center at the University of Rhode Island. Much of her work and passion concerns the study of influence, persuasion, and public health and policy issues. Her documentary film Holy Water-Gate received a 2004 CINE Golden Eagle Award for excellence in investigative journalism, and Best Documentary at the 2005 Rhode Island International Film Festival. Holy Water-Gate broadcast in 2005 on SHOWTIME NETWORKS, CBC Canada, SBS Australia, TVE Spain, DR DENMARK and SSR/TSI - Swiss Italian Television.

Her film Hidden in the Leaves - broadcast in 2008 on RIPBS and examines the factors that led to the emergence of Lyme disease and related infections and why, despite awareness of these risks, the impact of tick-transmitted diseases on society continue to expand at an alarming rate.

In the Fall of 2008 Professor Healey Jamiel filmed, directed and edited a series of short films called Reel Bites—a companion series for the 2008 honors colloquium website. In the series, ten URI scientists discuss the impacts of climate change on Rhode Island ecosystems.