Professor of Communication

Chair of the SC&I Health and Wellness Faculty Cluster

Areas of Expertise

Behavior change communication, persuasion and social marketing, community engagement and mobilizing, translational research, program evaluation

Professor of Communication

Provider-patient interaction, mental health interaction, family interaction, intercultural interaction

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

Areas of Expertise

Health information behavior, patient empowerment, patient-provider interactions, online support groups, disclosure

Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

Media effects, message design, persuasion, science communication, public opinion

Sophia Fu

Organizational communication, innovation adoption and diffusion, social influence, social network analysis, surveys

Professor of Communication

Engagement with prevention interventions, community grounded research, health disparities research, healthcare interactions, the role of companions in healthcare interactions, disclosure and health in relationships, stigma and health communication, media literacy interventions, adolescent substance prevention

Research Professor of Communication

Provider-patient interactions, adult-child interactions, empathy, advice-giving, emotion in interaction, therapeutic and psychoanalytic interactions

Assistant Professor of Communication

Development, implementation and evaluation of health communication interventions, individual and social-structural level communication intervention, community engaged research, disparities in HIV infection

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

Health technology, mHealth, EMR/EHR/PHR, human-computer interaction, participatory design, community engagement, healthy aging, everyday wellbeing, marginalized and vulnerable populations

Post-Doctoral Associate in the ASPEN Lab in Communication (Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks)

Persuasion communication, behavior change communication, mixed methods, sexual health communication, media effects

Associate Professor of Communication

Communication inequalities as determinants of health disparities (healthcare access, reproductive health, environmental health), discrimination in healthcare organizational settings, community-based interventions to improve health, health communication campaign design, implementation, and evaluation, health literacy, urban and global health

Associate Professor of Communication

Patient-provider communication, mental health services research; pediatric psychiatry, dementia communication, communicative competence, participatory design, community-based participatory research; stakeholder engagement

Social media and health communication among Latinx communities, health misinformation and digital health literacy (cancer, COVID), community engagement via lay health education, cancer control and prevention, disaster response and community resilience

Healthcare leadership and leadership development, planning and change leadership in healthcare organizations, provider-patient communication, health provider competencies

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

Health equity research, participatory design, community engagement/community-based participatory research

Director of the Ph.D. Program and Professor of Communication

Health & wellness in close relationships, illness as a context for relational turbulence, interpersonal communication in close relationships, relational turbulence during transitions (e.g. COVID-19), resilience in times of crisis

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science

Health informatics, health information behaviors, technology-based intervention development, sexual and reproductive health racial/ethnic minoritized LGBTQ communities, critical race and digital studies, community-based research, racial justice

Associate Professor of Communication

Interpersonal health, provider-patient interactions, patient-companion interactions, disclosure, resilience