University of Kentucky

Overview

Faculty

Graduate Faculty involved in Health Communication Research

• Chike Anyeagbunam, Ph.D., U of Iowa, international development, rural health communication, participatory communication research

• Michael Arrington, Ph.D., U. of South Florida, health communication, narrative inquiry, interpersonal and family communication, communication and race/ethnicity

• Donald O. Case, Ph.D., Stanford, information seeking behavior, consumer health information, social informatics, information policy, evaluation of information technology

• Elisia Cohen, Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, cancer prevention interventions designed to reduce population-based cancer disparities, communication strategies to improve tobacco cessation and policy interventions

• Pamela K. Cupp, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, HIV prevention, instructional communication, health interventions, meta-cognition and sensation seeking

• Nancy Grant Harrington, Ph.D., U of Kentucky, health communication, interpersonal communication, physician-patient communication, tailored message design

• Don Helme, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, classroom and community-based interventions targeted at reducing risky sexual behavior among at-risk adolescents, tobacco cessation and policy interventions, physician-patient communication

• Jeffrey T. Huber, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, health information outreach, health information literacy, consumer health informatics, community health informatics, health sciences information and communication

• Bobi Ivanov, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, influence of mass media on health, message processing, resistance to influence, uses of inoculation

• J. David Johnson, Ph.D., Michigan State, information seeking, health communication, network analysis, organizational communication

• Sujin Kim, Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from University of Pittsburgh.  Research areas:  Information Systems and Technology, Database management and warehousing, Information Seeking Behavior, Health Science Librarianship, and Medical Informatics

• Derek Lane, Ph.D., U of Oklahoma, message reception, instructional communication, interpersonal communication, health communication, group communication
  Seth M. Noar, Ph.D., U of Rhode Island, health behavior change, safer sexual behavior, theoretical models, methodology and statistics

• H. Dan O’Hair, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, organizational communication, health communication, and risk communication

• Phil Palmgreen, Ph.D., U of Michigan, audience uses of mass communication, media effects, health communication campaigns

• Kevin Real, Ph.D., Texas A&M, organizational communication, group communication, health communication

• Allison Scott, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, interpersonal communication, health communication

• Timothy Sellnow, Ph.D., Wayne State University, risk and crisis communication, bioterrorism , global pandemic preparedness planning, food safety, organizational communication

Total Graduate Faculty in the College is 25.

Courses

Research

Contact

Nancy Grant Harrington
228 Grehan Bldg,
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0042
E-mail:  ngrant@uky.edu
Phone Number:  (859) 257-3622
Fax Number: (859) 257-4103

Websites
University of Kentucky - http://www.uky.edu/
Department of Communication - http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/COM/index.html
School of Journalism and Telecommunications - http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/JAT/