Doe Mayer holds the Mary Pickford Chair at USC's School of Cinematic Arts where she teaches documentary and fiction filmmaking. She holds a joint appointment with the Annenberg School for Communication where her work is centered on the practical application of communication campaign strategies and designs for social issue and health defined organizations.
Professor Mayer has been working in film and television for the past 25 years and has produced, directed and provided technical support for hundreds of productions in the United States and numerous developing countries. Much of this programming has been in the areas of family planning, basic education, health and nutrition promotion, HIV/AIDS prevention, population, and women's issues.
As a consultant, she has designed communication campaigns using media and public outreach on subjects such as encouraging girls to stay in primary school in Malawi, providing evacuation information on a dangerous volcano about to erupt in Vanuatu, and teaching farmers to put less pesticides on their cabbages in Fiji. She has designed and implemented numerous workshops for non-governmental organizations (NGOS) on how to effectively get messages out to their target audiences using media and face to face communication.
She has recently completed a project called Women Connect!, an initiative of the Pacific Institute for Women's Health which is funded through the Annenberg Center for Communication at USC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project seeks to strengthen African women NGOS (Non Governmental Organizations) to use communication strategies in media and technology to improve women's health and well being.
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