Survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center has shown that over the past three years, Americans' acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation has risen, and willingness to vaccinate has declined.
Undergraduates Seyoon Chun and Kyle Grgecic spent the summer contributing to research about tobacco use in the LGBTQ community at Annenberg's Health Communication & Equity Lab.
The NIH and FDA have awarded $9.6 million to Annenberg School for Communication researchers to study health communication messaging about varying risks of tobacco products.
Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center Kathleen Hall Jamieson has been named to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working group on communications.
Research from the Computational Social Science Lab finds that factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from the COVID-19 shot.
Okker-Edging talks about her work on mental health communication resources like 988 and chatbots, and particularly their effects on marginalized populations.
Prof. Dolores Albarracín and her team dug through years of research on the science behind behavior change to determine the best ways to promote changes in behavior.
Michael Mann and Kathleen Hall Jamieson are co-teaching the Climate Change and Communication course this spring, tied to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference, held this year at Penn.
