Matthew W. Seeger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication? at Wayne State University in ?Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Seeger's research interests concern crisis, and risk communication, crisis response and agency coordination, health communication, the role of media in crisis, crisis and communication ethics, failure of complex systems and post-crisis renewal.

He has worked closely with the United States Centers for Disease Control ?and Prevention on communication and the anthrax attack and on communication and pandemic influenza preparedness. He is an affiliate of the