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

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

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

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

Rick Zimmerman, Ph.D., U of Wisconsin, medical sociology, social psychology of health, HIV prevention, substance use and abuse, methodology and statistics

Total Graduate Faculty in the College is 25.