Professor Mohan J. Dutta is associate professor of health communication, public relations and mass media in the Department of Communication, and affiliate faculty member of Asian Studies, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Discovery Learning Center (DLC), Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship and the Regenstreif Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University. He received his Bachelors of Technology (Honors) in Agricultural and Food Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, MA in Mass Communication from North Dakota State University and PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota. He joined Purdue University in 2001 and was tenured in 2005. Professor Dutta is the 2006 Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication and has received multiple research and teaching awards for his scholarly contributions. At Purdue University, he is a service learning fellow and a fellow of the leadership academy. Currently, he serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication.
Professor Dutta has worked in the areas of market research, copywriting, and account management in the advertising, health care and interactive multimedia industries. His current involvement with the industry includes formative and evaluation research in the realm of strategic communication campaigns, social marketing campaigns, and entertainment education programming. He also works with grassroots organizations on health care policies and structural inequities in health care.