Health Communication

Effective communication among and between healthcare providers, policymakers, the media, and the public plays a major role in determining the quality of personal and public health. Annenberg examines the role of interpersonal and mass-mediated communication on the development, maintenance of, and changes in the health-related attitudes, opinions, information-processing, and behavior of individuals and groups.

Health Communication News

06/10/2020

Meeting the Challenge of Vaccination Hesitancy: Q&A with Damon Centola

06/09/2020

Better Care for COVID Patients Through Virtual Reality

06/04/2020

Videos, Webinars and Lots of Feedback: Medical Training’s Shift Amid COVID-19

05/28/2020

Leeann Siegel Wins 2020 Ackoff Fellowship

Andy Tan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.B.B.S.

Associate Professor of Communication

Damon Centola, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering

David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Emily Falk, Ph.D.

Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing

John B. Jemmott III, Ph.D.

Kenneth B. Clark Professor of Communication and Psychiatry

Joe Cappella at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Joseph N. Cappella, Ph.D.

Gerald R. Miller Professor of Communication

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication

Robert C. Hornik, Ph.D.

Wilbur Schramm Professor of Communication and Health Policy

Secondary Faculty

Andrew A. Strasser, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Psychiatry, Perelman School

Christina A. Roberto, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Research Staff

Dan Romer, Ph.D.

Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Jennifer Morgan, M.P.H., Ph.D.

Research Director, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

Jessica Fishman, Ph.D.

Faculty Research Associate

Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Nicole Cooper, Ph.D.

Research Director, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Patrick Jamieson at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Patrick E. Jamieson, Ph.D.

Director, Annenberg Health & Risk Communication Institute

Researcher Yoona Kang at Annenberg School for Communication ASC UPenn

Yoona Kang, Ph.D.

Research Director, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Postdoctoral Researcher

Amanda L. McGowan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Addiction, Health, & Adolescence (AHA!) Lab

Bradley Mattan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Bruce Doré, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Elizabeth Walshe, Ph.D.

Martin Fishbein Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center

Jinha Kim, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

Nathan Silver, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science

Shannon M. Burns, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Videos

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

Uploaded on Monday, March 2, 2020 - 9:46am

New Annenberg assistant professor David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D., studies substance use and abuse over the lifespan, with an emphasis on how the small...

TCORS Jim Thrasher

TCORS Speaker - Jim Thrasher, University of South Carolina

Uploaded on Friday, March 24, 2017 - 2:29pm

This presentation describes emerging research on tobacco product marketing, regulation, and communication, including consideration of the research...

Want To Exercise More? Get Yourself Some Competition.

Uploaded on Thursday, October 27, 2016 - 8:37am

Research by the Network Dynamics Group at the Annenberg School for Communication compared different ways that exercise programs motivate people to...

TCORS Eric Donny

TCORS Speaker - Eric Donny, University of Pittsburgh

Uploaded on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 11:00am

In 2009, passage of the Tobacco Control Act granted the FDA the authority to set product standards for nicotine content in cigarettes if such action...

TCORS Jeff Niederdeppe

TCORS Speaker - Jeff Niederdeppe (Ph.D. '06), Cornell University

Uploaded on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 1:46pm

Successful efforts to address population health issues of our time, including rates of obesity, cigarette smoking, and prescription pain medication...

Projects & Grants

22 Oct 2014 to 21 Oct 2019

Annenberg Public Policy Center
Communication Neuroscience Lab
Penn Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
Center for Health Behavior and Communication Research
Addiction, Health, and Adolescence Lab

Health Communication

Meeting the Challenge of Vaccination Hesitancy: Q&A with Damon Centola

Better Care for COVID Patients Through Virtual Reality

Videos, Webinars and Lots of Feedback: Medical Training’s Shift Amid COVID-19

Leeann Siegel Wins 2020 Ackoff Fellowship

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

Faculty Profile: David Lydon-Staley

TCORS Jim Thrasher

TCORS Speaker - Jim Thrasher, University of South Carolina

Want To Exercise More? Get Yourself Some Competition.

Want To Exercise More? Get Yourself Some Competition.

TCORS Eric Donny

TCORS Speaker - Eric Donny, University of Pittsburgh

TCORS Jeff Niederdeppe

TCORS Speaker - Jeff Niederdeppe (Ph.D. '06), Cornell University

Increasing Receptivity to Health Messages by Transcending Defensiveness: An fMRI and Texting Intervention Study [Gift]

Penn Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS)

Health Promotion for Positives: A Randomized Trial With HIV Positive Black Men

Neural Bases of Persuasion and Social Influence in the U.S. and the Middle East

TCORS Tobacco FactCheck Core

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