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

12/03/2020

Falk Wins 2020 SANS Early Career Award

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10/08/2020

Health Communication & Equity Lab Creates Better Public Health Messaging for LGBTQ+ Populations

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09/28/2020

AHA! Lab Studies How Daily Moments Impact Long-Term Behavior

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09/14/2020

Virtual Reality Trains Public to Reverse Opioid Overdoses

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Standing Faculty

Portrait of Andy Tan
Andy Tan, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.B.B.S.
Associate Professor of Communication
Portrait of Damon Centola
Damon Centola, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication, Sociology and Engineering
Portrait of David Lydon-Staley
David Lydon-Staley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Communication
Portrait of Emily B. Falk
Emily Falk, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Marketing
Portrait of John Jemmott
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
Portrait of Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication
Portrait of Robert C. Hornik
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 of Medicine
Portrait of Christina Roberto
Christina A. Roberto, Ph.D.
Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Associate Professor of Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine

Research Staff

Portrait of Dan Romer
Dan Romer, Ph.D.
Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Portrait of Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer Morgan, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Research Director, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
Portrait of Jessica Fishman
Jessica Fishman, Ph.D.
Faculty Research Associate
Portrait of Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Communication Neuroscience Lab
Portrait of Nicole Cooper
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

Portrait of Amanda L. McGowan
Amanda L. McGowan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Addiction, Health, & Adolescence (AHA!) Lab
Portrait of Bradley Mattan
Bradley Mattan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Communication Neuroscience Lab
Portrait of Jinha Kim
Jinha Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
Portrait of Shannon M. Burns
Shannon M. Burns, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Communication Neuroscience Lab

Videos

Alumni Profile: Andy Tan

Uploaded on Saturday, August 23, 2014 - 3:26pm
Andy S.L. Tan, Ph.D. (Gr '13) now a researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, sat down for an interview while he was a graduate student to talk...

CECCR Guest Speaker: Annie Lang

Uploaded on Saturday, August 23, 2014 - 2:50pm
February 29, 2012 CECCR Speaker Series talk presented by Annie Lang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Telecommunications and Cognitive Science,...

TCORS Speaker - Benjamin Toll, Smilow Cancer Hosptial, Yale-New Haven

Uploaded on Friday, August 22, 2014 - 9:02am
Penn's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science's guest lecture by Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Program Director, Smoking...

TCORS Speaker - Kurt Ribisl, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health

Uploaded on Friday, August 22, 2014 - 8:52am
April 9, 2014 Penn Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) lecture by Kurt Ribsl, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Health Behavior - University...

Americans Awareness, Skepticism Over E-Cigarettes

Uploaded on Monday, May 5, 2014 - 4:24pm
Results from an Annenberg and University of Illinois survey of over 3,600 Americans and their awareness of e-cigarettes and their opinions as to...

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Projects & Grants

01 Sep 2013 to 31 May 2017

Can Neuroscience Dramatically Improve our Ability to Design Health Communications?

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01 Mar 2014 to 13 Jan 2017

Disseminating Information and Attitudes About IUDs Using Virtual Online Social Communities

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30 Sep 2014 to 29 Sep 2016

Public Health Communications: Culturally Relevant Messages and Strategies to Promote Awareness about Dementia

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01 Sep 2011 to 31 Aug 2016

The Penn Center for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening

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19 Dec 2009 to 30 Nov 2015

Reducing Risk of HIV/STD Infection Among African American Men

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Upcoming Events

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05 Feb 2021 - 12:00pm
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Centers

  • 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 & Equity Lab