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Katz Colloquia: Susana Ramirez, UC Merced

November 8, 2024 12:15pm-1:15pm
  • Annenberg School, Room 500
Audience Open to the Public

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About the Speaker: 

Dr. Susana Ramírez is an expert in media, inequality, and health. As an “infodemiologist”—trained in both communication and public health—Dr. Ramírez uses social scientific methods to advance public health. A longstanding line of research considers the role of the public information environment on health outcomes and upends traditional behavioral research that (mis)characterizes Latinos, immigrants, and African Americans as having cultural orientations in opposition to healthy lifestyles. Rather, Dr. Ramírez’ findings provide a narrative for how communication may impact health disparities. Recent research extends this theorizing to advance understanding of the corporate and commercial determinants of health, including elaboration of a theoretical framework for racialized marketing. 

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Prof. Ramírez is co-editor of the Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare (Wiley, 2024) and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Communication and the Journal of Communication in Health Care. Her work has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Buoy Health, and the Hellman Family Foundation and has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals including Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Health Promotion, BMJ-Global Health, and Millbank Quarterly.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Public Health Communication at the University of California, Merced, where she teaches courses in social science research methods, health communication, and health policy. Dr. Ramírez earned a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.P.H. from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Communication from Santa Clara University.

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