D. Lawrence Kincaid is best known among communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

 theorists as the proponent of the convergence model of communication, a nonlinear model of communication wherein two communicators strive to reach "mutual understanding." In recent years this model has been particularly popular among proponents of development communication

Development communication

Development Communication, has been alternatively defined as a type of marketing and public opinion research that is used specifically to develop effective communication or as the use of communication to promote social development...

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At present, he is the Associate Director for Research of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs and an Associate Scientist at the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

He is also a co-author of Health Communication: Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health, considered by many as a seminal book on the topic of health communication. He edited Communication Theory: Eastern and Western Perspectives.