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Graduate Faculty Involved in Health Communication Research
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Kami Silk is an Associate Professor
jointly appointed to the Department of Communication and the
Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and also serves as the
Graduate Director of the Masters in Health and Risk
Communication (Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002). She teaches
and conducts research on health communication. Her recent work
deals with increasing blood donation through social norms,
breast cancer prevention, and risk perceptions associated with
bioeconomy initiatives.
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Charles Atkin (PhD, Mass
Communication, University of Wisconsin), Chair of the Department
of Communication, has taught at MSU since 1971, and began
serving as Chair in 1997. He also currently holds the title of
University Distinguished Professor. He teaches and conducts
research on mass communication campaigns, particularly in the
health domain. His current grants focus is on collegiate alcohol
prevention campaign strategies.
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Franklin J. Boster
(Ph.D.,
Michigan State University, 1978) is Interim Chair for
Communicative Sciences and Disorders and a Professor in the
Department of Communication at Michigan State University. His
primary research interests are in the areas of social influences
processes and group dynamics. His research in health
communication has included evaluations of health-related
programs and the processes of disseminating health information.
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Mary Bresnahan (Ph.D. Southeast Asian
Studies, University of Michigan,) is a professor in
intercultural communication. She has conducted research on
attitudes toward organ donation in Korea, Japan, and China
focusing on spiritual beliefs as they relate to connection with
the recipient of a donated organ and concern about organ
donation. She is currently conducting research on stigma and
lung cancer.
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Soo Eun Chang (Ph.D in
Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign). Dr. Soo-Eun Chang is a faculty member in the
Department of Communicative Sciences & Disorders. She is
currently conducting a study on stuttering in three to ten year
old children by using brain imaging to unravel the mysteries of
stuttering.
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Manuel Chavez (Ph.D. University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee) is associate professor of journalism and
associate Director of the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies. He has done research, teaching, and outreach
on security issues in North America. His research is
concentrated on issues of cooperation and collaboration on the
U.S.-Mexico border management, public policy in the
regional/international context, access to information and
transparency of intergovernmental agencies at the binational and
trinational levels, and the policy analysis of natural resources
management.
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Paul Cooke (Ph.D. Speech Pathology) is a
certified Speech-Language Pathologist and a certified Clinical
Hypnotherapist. His current research examines the extent of test
anxiety (examinations and oral presentations) on campus, its
impact on students' grades, and effective strategies to reduce
test anxiety. Clinically, He uses his training as a clinical
hypnotherapist to facilitate positive change in individuals with
a variety of health issues, to include: smoking, stress, unusual
fears, test anxiety, obesity, and pain.
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Constantions Coursaris (Ph.D. McMasters
University) is an Assistant Professor in TISM, as well as
in the APRR Department. His research interests lie in the
intersection of usability and mobile devices for the purpose of
health and/or commercial applications. Constantinos is fusing
communication theories with those of information systems to
better understand what is requisite in boosting the adoption of
health information websites.
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Jim Detjen (M.S. degree with honors,
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism) holds the
Knight Chair in Journalism, the nation's only endowed chair in
environmental journalism. He spent 21 years as a professional
newspaper reporter and editor. From 1973 to 1977 Jim covered
local government, police, agriculture and the environment at The
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.) Journal and covered environmental issues,
worked as an investigative reporter and wrote editorials while
at The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal from 1978 to 1982. He
covered scientific, environmental and medical issues and also
served as a part-time editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer from
1982 to 1994.
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Laura Dilley, Ph.D,
received her B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1997 from
MIT and her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and
Technology from MIT and Harvard in 2005. She served as a
post-doctoral research associate in cognitive psychology at Ohio
State University from 2004-2006.
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William Donohue is a distinguished
professor of Communication at Michigan State University (Ph.D.,
Ohio State University). Professor Donohue has published over 60
empirical research articles, and five books in the area of
conflict, communication, negotiation and mediation. His 1992
book, Interpersonal Conflict, is a practical, hands-on tool for
people to use in managing conflicts in their routine
interpersonal contacts. Dr. Donohue's primary research interests
lie in the areas of conflict management, program evaluation, and
violence and substance abuse prevention.
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Eric Freedman (JD New York University
Law School) is associate professor of journalism and assistant
dean of International Studies & Programs. As a researcher, his
primary interests are newspaper coverage of U.S. elections and
press systems and journalism practices in Central Asias former
Soviet republics.
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Bradley S. Greenberg is University
Distinguished Professor of Communication and Telecommunication,
Information Studies and Media Emeritus at Michigan State
University and former chairperson of the Departments of
Communication and Telecommunication. Dr. Greenberg's research
career has centered on the social effects of contemporary mass
media. The author of more than 200 published academic articles
and chapters, Dr. Greenberg's current work focuses on: Parental
mediation behaviors; body images on television; portrayal of
racial minorities on television; public use of media in response
to terrorism; food portrayed on children's TV shows.
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Gary Hsieh (PhD,
Carnegie Mellon University) is an Assistant Professor with the
Departments of Communication and Telecommunication and
Information Studies. Dr. Hsieh’s research is in the use of
incentives and the use of social media and mobile devices for
intervention and evaluation.
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Amanda Holmstrom (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Communication. Dr. Holmstrom’s research focuses broadly on
relational communication; in particular, she is interested in
the contributions of emotional and esteem support interactions
to indices of mental, physical, and relational health and
well-being. Other areas of research interest include family
communication, gender differences in the provision and reception
of social support, and online social support interactions.
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Pat Huddleston (Ph.D. University of
Tennessee, Knoxville) is a Professor of Retailing in the
Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing. Dr.
Huddleston's research interests include customer loyalty, with a
focus on food stores. A recent study drew comparisons between
traditional (e.g. Kroger's) and specialty (e.g. Whole Foods)
food store shoppers and found that specialty store food shopper
are more loyal than conventional store shoppers.
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Steve Lacy (Ph.D. University of Texas at
Austin) is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and a professor
in the Michigan State University Department of Communication and
School of Journalism. He has written or co-written more than 85
refereed journal articles, more than 50 refereed conference
papers, ten book chapters and four books. He has co-edited two
other books and written numerous other articles. His research
interests are in Media economics, content analysis methodology,
news sociology, and Internet content.
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Janet Lillie is the
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of
Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University
where she teaches courses in organizational communication and
social media. She has expertise in all stages of communication
campaign design and evaluation and has extensive experience in
message design, message testing, and summative and formative
evaluation. She is a focus group moderator and has conducted and
coordinated numerous focus groups for a variety of different
health communication research projects, including breast cancer,
prostate cancer, medical technology competencies, and cerebral
palsy. Her current research focuses on online community
development and behavior change through social media.
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Peter LaPine, is an Associate Professor
of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. Since 2000, he
and a team of colleagues and graduate students work at Playa del
Carmen’s Angel Notion Clinic, a school for students with special
needs. About 3,000 families have been touched by the several
hundred physicians, nurses, surgical technicians, speech
pathologists, and volunteers who have accompanied LaPine on his
24 medical trips to Mexico. Partnering with several Mexican
universities and the Angel Notion Clinic, he is developing a
telemedicine and distance-learning program that will train local
young people to assist impoverished parents in recognizing
potential health problems.
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Maria Lapinski-Lafaive (Ph.D.
Michigan State University) is an internationally known scholar
in the areas of health, risk, and intercultural communication
who is appointed in both the College of Communication Arts &
Sciences and Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station. Her
research interests include the impact of persuasive messages on
health and environmental risk perceptions and behaviors. To this
end, she and her team have conducted research projects in the US
as well as several countries in Africa, Central America, and
Asia and the Pacific Rim. Her work, which has involved
collaborative partnerships with scholars from across MSU and the
world, has been published in communication and public health
journals. National Science Foundation, United States Department
of Agriculture, and others have supported this research.
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Robert Larose (Ph.D, Annenberg School,
University of Southern California) is a professor in
Telecommunication, Information Studies, and the Media. His
interests are the uses and social effects of the Internet. His
current research involves social cognitive explanations of
Internet use; media addiction and self-regulation in the case of
the Internet; impulse, compulsion and addiction in e-commerce;
motivating virtual students, the effects of broadband in rural
America, online safety.
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Lourdes S. Martinez
(Ph.D. Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania) is an
Assistant Professor of Communication. Her research explores the
intersection between social psychology and communication and
examines how individuals make decisions about their health using
information from their social environment. Her dissertation
tested the effects of anticipated regret messages in promoting
prevention behavior among a population of young women. More
broadly, her research interests include the design and
evaluation of health communication campaigns, persuasive design
of health messages, patient-clinician communication, and mass
media effects on health behavior.
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Khadidiatou Ndiaye (Ph.D. Penn State
University) conducts research centered on issues of culture,
health, and international communication. She explores how
culture impacts the fundamental understanding of health as well
as individual and communities’ behaviors. Also she is interested
in the process of international health communication research;
specifically, how to address the inherent methods and procedures
challenges of international health communication research (both
from the researchers and participants’ standpoints).
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Hye-Jin Paek (Ph.D. Mass Communication)
researches the effects of health messages on individual health,
in conjunction with social perceptions, social interactions, and
social contexts. She also studies the application of social
marketing principles for promoting public health and wellbeing.
The five major topics she is currently working on are youth
smoking, child obesity, media health literacy, child abuse and
neglect prevention, and food marketing and safety. She teaches
social marketing and advertising and public relations message
strategy.
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HeeSun Park (Ph.D. Communication)
teaches topics in Organizational Communication and Research
Methods and Statistics at undergraduate and graduate levels. Her
recent research focuses on multilevel analyses of group and
organizational communication and cross-cultural communication in
various contexts. Specifically, she is interested in examining
the processes of how people build shared understanding through
communication.
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Wei Peng (Ph.D. Annenberg School,
University of Southern California) is an assistant professor in
the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and
the Media. Her research interests are using serious games
for health, for education, and for social change. She developed
the RightWay Cafe game to promote healthy diet for young adults.
She is also interested in social and psychological impacts of
new communication technologies, including video games and online
games, humanoid robots, online social networking, etc.
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Elizabeth Quilliam (Ph.D. Michigan State
University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing (APRR). She also
has an appointment with the Michigan State University Extension
(MSUE) and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES),
and serves as Associate Director of Children’s Central MSU, a
group of researchers bringing a multidisciplinary approach to
the study of children and media. Her research focuses on the
intersection between marketing and society, with a particular
focus on public policy issues related to media and children’s
health. For example, she has studied the role of innovative
advertising tactics in childhood obesity, parental response to
food marketing targeting children, and direct-to-consumer
prescription drug advertising.
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Nora Rifon (Ph.D. in Business from the
City University of New York) is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Advertising, Public Relations, & Retailing. Her
research interests are in consumer behavior, consumer health
decisions and advertising, social marketing, and cause-related
marketing.
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Sandi W. Smith (Ph.D. in Communication
University of Southern California) is the Director of the Health
and Risk Communication Center and Professor in the Department of
Communication at Michigan State University where she teaches
courses in persuasion, interpersonal communication, and
communication theory. Her research interests parallel these
course topics. In specific, she is focusing her research on four
main areas: persuading people to carry signed and witnessed
organ donor cards and to engage in family discussion about their
decisions related to organ donation, the impact of memorable
messages received from important others on topics such as breast
cancer, reduction of alcohol consumption on college campuses,
and the portrayal of interpersonal relationships in the media.
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Joseph Walther (Ph.D. in Communication
from the University of Arizona) is a professor in Communication
and in Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media whose
original theoretical work addresses the use of the Internet in a
variety of personal and professional relationships. His health
communication research has focused on factors affecting the
credibility of online medical information, and the utility of
online social support systems for people with medical and
psychological problems.
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Pamela Whitten, Ph.D. is Dean of the
College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State
University and a Professor in the Department of
Telecommunications. Dr. Whitten’s research focuses on the
use of technology in health care with specific interest in
telehealth and its impact on the delivery of health care
services and health education. In addition to her work
assessing the outcomes and impact of telemedicine, she also
conducts research that examines innovative uses of mediated
communication to reach underserved populations, such as the
creation of health websites for adults with low literacy levels.
Dr. Whitten’s newest project is funded by NIH to develop
telepsychiatry services for cancer patients in rural Indiana.
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Steve Wildman (PhD in Economics,
Stanford University) is the James H. Quello Professor of
Telecommunication Studies in the Department of
Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media and is
Co-Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication
Management and Law. His research focuses on economics and
policy for communication industries and technologies.Geri Alumit
Zeldes (Ph.D. Michigan State University) is an assistant
professor in the School of Journalism, where she teaches radio
and TV news, introduction to mass media and other courses she's
recently developed - Vocal Health and Performance for
Broadcasters and Reporting on Islam. Her research and creative
interests probe news coverage of race and gender issues.
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Lourdes S. Martinez
(Ph.D. Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania) is an
Assistant Professor of Communication. Her research explores the
intersection between social psychology and communication and
examines how individuals make decisions about their health using
information from their social environment. Her dissertation
tested the effects of anticipated regret messages in promoting
prevention behavior among a population of young women. More
broadly, her research interests include the design and
evaluation of health communication campaigns, persuasive design
of health messages, patient-clinician communication, and mass
media effects on health behavior.
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All faculty members have active research
agendas and have garnered millions of dollars of funding. Here are a
sampling of recently funded projects:
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Smith, Park, Walther, and
Novales-Wibert.
University Donor Drive: Increasing Donor Registration
through Synchronized Social Identity and Social Networking.
Funded $322,946. HRSA
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Bergan
Political
Issue Ads About Health Coverage
$353,953
RWJ Foundation
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Lapinski
Evaluation of Teenage
Sexual Abstinence Program, $14,499 Ingham Co Health
Dept / HHS
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Baker, Riles, Kaneene,
Lapinski, Grooms, Fitzgerald,
Bolin Bovine
tuberculosis in Michigan and Minnesota $229,343 USDA
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Haslam, Yang,
Schwartz, Atkin, Silk, and Smith.
Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center.
$200,000 NIH.
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Dwyer, Yonker, Luz, Laird-Flick,
Komara, Keilman, Anderson, Whitten, Wehrwein
Geriatrics Education Center of Michigan
$388,431 HRSA
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Peng, Winn, Pfieffer, Short-Term and Long-Term
Effectiveness of Exergames for Young Adults
$284.010 RWJ Foundation
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Rifon, PI,Weatherspoon,
“Impact of Food Advergames Targeting Children on Dietary
Behaviors,” NIH/PHS, $408,337.
- Smith, Sandi, “OHSP High School safe Driving
Project,” funded by Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning,
$59,851
- Morash, Merry; Smith, Sandi; Cobbina,
Jennifer; Kashy, Deborah, “Probation/Parole Officer Interactions
with Women Offenders: Do Relationship Style and Communication
Pattern Predict Outcomes?” US Department of Justice Office,
$609,910
- Park, Hee Sun; Smith, Sandi, “Harnessing
the Normative Power of University Student Groups and Social and
Mobile Media to Increase the Michigan Organ Donor Registry,”
Gift of Life Foundation, $423,173
- Smith, Sandi; Park, Hee Sun; Walther, Joseph;
Wibert, Wilma, “University Donor Drive: Increasing Donor
Registration through Synchronized Social Identity and Social
Networking,” Health Resources & Services Administration-PHS,
$435,771
- Haslam, Sandra; Schwartz, Richard; Atkin, Charles;
Silk, Kami; Smith, Sandi, “Pubertal High Fat Diet:
Effects on Inflammation, Mammary Development, and Cancer,”
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences-NIH/PHS,
$2,280,000
- Ogundimu, Folu; Achebe, Nwando; Lapinski-Lafaive,
Maria; Ndiaye, Khadidiatou; Obaro, Stephen,
“Eradicating wild polio viruses in Nigeria: A strategic
communication-centered approach for research and training,”
World Health Organization, $384,726
- Lapinski-Lafaive, Maria, “Improving
Hygienic and Food Preparation Practices in Child Care Centers,”
USDA-U.S. Department of Agriculture, $600,000
- Rifon, Nora; Quilliam, Elizabeth; Cole,
Richard, Lee, Mi-Ra, Paek, Hye-Jin; Weatherspoon, Lorraine,
“Impact of Food Advergames Targeting Children on Dietary
Behaviors,” National Institute of Health – NIH/PHS, $411,920
- Wyatt, Gwen; Sikorskii, Alla; Holmstrom, Amanda;
Luo, Zhehui, “Home-Based Symptom Management via Reflexology for
Advanced Breast Cancer Patients,” National Institute of Health –
NIH/PHS, $3,221,360
- Peng, Wei; Winn, Brian; Pfeiffer, Karin,
“Short-term and Long-term effectiveness of exergames for young
adults,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $296,100
- Detjen, James, “Urban Youth Environmental
Reporting: A Joint Project by the Knight Center for
Environmental Journalism and We the People Media,” McCormick
Tribune Foundation, $48,648
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