Teaching and Training
Undergraduate Courses
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COMM 307
Health LiteracyInstructors: Matthew Matsaganis, Lisa Mikesell
This class focuses on applying literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on medically underserved and vulnerable populations. -
COMM 359
PersuasionInstructors: Kathryn Greene, Itzhak Yanovitzky, Maria Venetis, Brian Householder
This class focuses on applying literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on medically underserved and vulnerable populations. -
COMM 407
Health CommunicationInstructors: Kathryn Greene, Itzhak Yanovitzy
Exploration of communication demands of health care and the development of effective communication strategies and skills for use in health care practice. -
COMM 408
Health Messages & Campaign DesignInstructors: Matthew Matsaganis, Yonaira M. Rivera, Itzhak Yanovitzky
Design, implementation, and evaluation of public communication campaigns designed to change health behavior of individuals, groups, and entire populations. -
COMM 410
Media, Marketing & CommunicationInstructor: Shawnika Hull
This class focuses on applying literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on medically underserved and vulnerable populations. -
COMM 432
Communication, Technology, and SocietyInstructor: Sophia Fu
This class focuses on applying literacy principles to real life health phenomenon, in clinical encounters, as well as in community and public health contexts with an emphasis on medically underserved and vulnerable populations. -
COMM 459
Patient-Provider CommunicationInstructors: Lisa Mikesell, Maria Venetis
This class explores facets of patient-provider communication and their impact on patient and provider satisfaction and health outcomes. -
COMM 473
(Special Topics) Mental Health CommunicationInstructor: Lisa Mikesell
Advanced topical seminar dealing with issues of concern to contemporary communication studies. -
JMS 415
Media, Science, and Public EngagementInstructor: Lauren Feldman
This course will consider the intersections of science, media, and society. With a focus on both theory and practice, it explores the media’s role in understanding and communicating about the most critical science and environmental issues of the day.
Graduate Courses
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Communication and SocietyInstructor: Lisa Mikesell
This course examines the role of communication in society. Taught with a special topics focus in each semester, the course will examine the important impacts that communication processes, relationships, and messages have in society. (Offered every fall semester) -
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Mediated Health CommunicationInstructor: Yonaira M. Rivera
Topics in Health Communication I:
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Topics in Health Communication 2Instructors: Maria Venetis, others
This course examines the impact of dyadic communication about health. We examine how clinicians, patients, and support providers communicate in ways that promote or hinder patient wellbeing. -
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Applied Interactions in Health and WellnessInstructor: Alexa Hepburn
Topics in Communication and Health:
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Communicating EmotionTopics in Communication and Health
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Topics: Media, Science & SocietyInstructor: Lauren Feldman
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Interpersonal CommunicationInstructors: Jen Theiss, Kathryn Greene, Maria Venetis, others
Contemporary theories and major lines of classic and current research concerning interpersonal communication. -
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Interpersonal and Relational Health CommunicationInstructors: Kathryn Greene, Maria Venetis, others
This course overviews majors themes of interpersonal health communication including issues such as physician-patient communication, relationships for individuals with health issues, and the relationship of communication to physical and mental health outcomes. -
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PersuasionInstructors: Kathryn Greene, Itzhak Yanovitzky
This course explores the strategic use of communication by individuals and groups to facilitate persuasion and change. Topics covered vary by instructor but may include theories of behavior and social change, strategic communication, interpersonal influence and diffusion, media advocacy and social marketing, argumentation, discourse and conflict. -
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Language and Social InteractionInstructor: Galina Bolden
Topics in Communication Processes I:
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Patient-Provider CommunicationInstructor: Lisa Mikesell, Maria Venetis
Cross-listed with 17:194:561
Topics in Communication Processes II -
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Health CommunicationInstructor: Matthew Matsaganis, Kathryn Greene, Maria Venetis
Provides an overview of the major areas of health communication including health communication campaigns, physician-patient communication, and communication among health professionals and individuals affected by health issues. -
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Health Communication CampaignsInstructors: Matthew Matsaganis, Itzhak Yanovitzky
This course considers the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health communication programs that aim to influence the health-related behaviors of individuals, groups, and communities.
Trainings
Rutgers Transdisciplinary Program in Primary Care Research (TRaP PCR)
Faculty Research Mentor: Lisa Mikesell
Funded by a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA; PI: Kleinman) T32 institutional training grant.
Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital
Contributing Faculty: Lisa Mikesell
A video provider education series being put out by RWJBH on addressing the social determinants of health in clinical settings.
Overview: Geared towards multidisciplinary providers interested in the integration of social factors into the clinical setting, Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital offers valuable lessons from national thought-leaders who have lived and learned experience in the social determinants of health arena. Through this series, providers will become well-equipped to address the social and behavioral needs of ALL patients. Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital is intended to provide critical information to every professional that touches the life of a patient, therefore, we encourage participation from individuals across disciplines, from physicians to intake workers, social workers to community outreach workers and everyone in between.
Curbside Manner: Health Beyond the Hospital will address equity, culture, and diversity, as well as specific social factors that affect health, such as housing; nutrition and food security; and substance abuse. A critical component of every session will be the appropriate communication of sensitive topics with patients, therefore skilled behavioral health and communication experts will offer strategies for doing so with care and compassion. Each session will feature testimonials from clinicians, patients, and government/community-based partners woven throughout to further evidence and validate the need for social factors to be addressed in culturally and linguistically appropriate ways—and the patient outcomes when providers are trained and educated to address SDOH and when they are not.
This is a 5-part series that should launch with live links to video series in August/September.
- Part 1 – Integrating Social Care into Clinical Settings
- Part 2 – Unmasking Racism in Healthcare
- Part 3 – The Weight of Poor Nutrition
- Part 4 – Housing – A Key to Better Health
- Part 5 – Behind Closed Doors – Substance Use, Mental Health and Violence
Communicating about Public Health in Times of Crisis: Strategies for TB Programs and Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Panelists: Elissa Kozlov, PhD; Alfred Lardizabal, MD; Lyn Mateos, RN; Lisa Mikesell, PhD; Heather Wurtz, MD
Just-in-time webinar on “Communicating about Public Health in Times of Crisis: Strategies for TB Programs and Staff during the COVID-19 Pandemic”, hosted by Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute (GTBI) on June 23, 2020 was selected by CDC to be highlighted in the July 2021 issue of the “Find TB Resources” (part of the larger CDC National Prevention Information Network, NPIN) Website E-Newsletter.