Biography
I am a public health communication scholar with training and experience in the fields of health communication, media studies, epidemiology, and program evaluation. My work primarily focuses on the development and evaluation of public health campaigns for cancer prevention and control, including vaccination, tobacco control, and cancer screening. I employ a variety of research methods in my work, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and secondary data analysis. I teach courses in the John D. Bower School of Population Health on science communication, implementation science, and research methods.
I earned my doctorate in Health Communication at the University of Utah and completed an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics during my postdoctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, Division of Cancer Control and Population Health of the National Cancer Institute.
