Winter quarter meetings

Winter quarter meeting dates have been scheduled: Jan 8, 22; Feb 5, 19; and Mar 5. Our first meeting will feature Zack Kerr, MA of the School of Communication, and Dr. Bill Gardner, Professor of Pediatrics, Psychology, and Psychiatry.

We look forward to seeing you Jan. 8!

HCRG meeting November 20

Two student members of HCRG will be discussing current projects at Monday's meeting. Cat Goodall will discuss an experiment for which she and Michael Slater just collected data. Jason Reineke will discuss an ongoing content analysis with Michael Slater. As usual, there should be time left over for questions or feedback. See you there!

add'l websites

Marcia Zorn from NLM updates these every month on healthcommunication.net. (last one i'll post...)

HEALTH COMM Web sites, November 2006
compiled by Marcia Zorn, M.A., M.L.S.

Lists are Archived by the Coalition for Health Communication at http://www.healthcommunication.net/Online_Resources.html
or, go to http://www.healthcommunication.net and select Online Resources

Osei Appiah Nov 6

Osei Appiah will be talking abt race and identity in tobacco messages at our Monday noon brown bag.

See you there.

Osei Appiah Nov 6

Osei Appiah will be talking abt race and identity in tobacco messages at our Monday noon brown bag.

See you there.

Topic for Oct. 23 meeting

Lindsay Hoffman will be discussing the beginning stages of an experiment assessing audience responses to value-laden messages on smoking bans in newspaper editorials. Kellie Carlyle will also be discussing an upcoming experiment (for her dissertation) that measures the effect of emotion on attribution of blame in response to news articles on relationship violence and abuse. Feel free to bring a snack or lunch. See you there!

Health Communication Web Resources

The link below leads to a list of health communication web sites alphabetically by topic (e.g., "bioterrorism," "HIV/AIDS," or "Risk Comm"). It was compiled by Marcia Zorn, Member of the National Communication Association, Health Communication Division. A link has also been posted under "Links" on the right-hand side of this blog.
Health Comm Web Resources (PDF)

note j health comm links; forwarded from Marcia Zorn, NLM

A new JHCLink is available at <http://www.gwu.edu/~cih/journal/JHClink/3rdissue06.htm>
To receive future issues, register (no charge) at <http://www.journalofhealthcommunication.com>.
The Website has full-text access to all published editorials and abstracts from Journal of Health Communication (click Table of Contents), as well as links to previous issues JHCLink, journal submission guidelines and other information.
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Wednesday, OCTOBER 18 2006 Forum to Examine the Implications of Reality Television as Source of Health Information Kaiser/Alliance to Host Capitol Hill Briefing. “ In recent years, the popularity of reality TV has continued to soar…”. Kaiser will host a lunch-time forum, "The ‘Reality’ of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health," in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 18, from noon to 2 p.m. to examine the implications of reality TV serving as a health information source. Vicky Rideout, Kaiser Family Foundation vice president and director of Kaiser’s Program for the Study of Entertainment Media and Health, will host the event and screen clips from several health-based reality TV shows. Kaiser Vice President Jackie Judd will moderate a panel discussion including the executive vice president and general manager of Discovery Health Channel, the host of reality TV’s Honey We’re Killing the Kids, and leading researchers. The forum will take place in the Foundation's Barbara Jordan Conference Center at 1330 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. To RSVP, contact Sarah Williams Kingsley at sarahw@kff.org or (650) 854-9400.
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Helping Patients And Caregivers Communicate: Language Access in U.S. Hospitals (National Health Law Program) <Webcast> from Kaisernetwork.org held 10/11/2006:

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Moving Toward Real Solutions: Advances to Address Low Health LiteracyFifth Annual National Health Communication Conference. November 29, 2006(Co-sponsored by the Institute of Medicine) National Academy of Sciences2100 C Street N.W. Washington, DC Tel: (877) 208-4189
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Where to start

I've got a general question about where I can find some good literature on fear appeals and risk communication. I'm interested in reading up on fear appeals, risk perception, crisis communication...those types of topics. I'm new to the health comm field and I'm interested in taking some of those health comm ideas and applying them to the political comm field. Are there any good starting points for me...books or journal articles that are worth note? I can't be at the HCRG meeting on Monday, so I thought I'd ask on the blog, maybe it can help other students too. Thanks in advance!

NCA Pre-Conference

For those of you thinking about going to NCA this year, this is a great pre-conference to attend. It generally happens every two years. I went last time and found it very helpful, even as someone early in the Ph.D. program. Also, it's a great way to meet health comm scholars in an environment where you can have one-on-one conversations. Here's the link for more information about this and other pre-conferences (including one on risk and crisis communication): http://www.natcom.org/nca/Template2.asp?bid=6417.

PCO5: Doctoral and Early Career Health Communication Conference: Creating Connection and Action

Hilton Palacio del Rio

Salon Del Ray South

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Health communication scholars and practitioners have long recognized the tremendous opportunities and challenges of working within and across this discipline. This pre-conference is designed to enhance the work and network of (a) doctoral students in the final stages of completing Ph.D. work (i.e., finishing classes, working on the prospectus, conducting and writing up the dissertation project) or (b) recent Ph.D.s working to establish their research agenda. (Of course, scholars at any stage in the development of their research agenda are welcome to attend.)

The opening sessions will focus trends in content, funding, methods and outcomes, publishing in the field, as well as the intersection of health communication with other disciplines. The afternoon sessions will be in small groups with attention to the mechanics of completing research and translating work into publications. (50 maximum capacity)

Presenters:

Vicki Freimuth, University of Georgia

Teri Thompson, University of Dayton

Jon Nussbaum, University of Pennsylvania

Dan O’Hair, University of Oklahoma

Stephen Haas, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati,

Rajiv Rimal, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University,

Athena duPre’, Ph.D., University of West Florida,

Lisa Murray-Johnson, Ph.D., Ohio State University

Rick Street, Texas A&M University

Mike Stephenson, Texas A& M University

Jim Query, University of Houston

Lisa Sparks, George Mason University

Eileen Berlin Ray, Cleveland State University

Marifran Mattson, Purdue University

Barb Sharf, Texas A&M University

Becky Cline, Karamos Cancer Center, Wayne State University

Carma Bylund, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Jen Kopfman, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Dale Brashers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Christina Beck, Ohio University

Nancy Grant Harrington, University of Kentucky

Topic for Oct. 9 meeting

Dr. Tony Roberto and Ph.D. student Cat Goodall will ask for feedback from the group before submission of a paper to ICA. The study is about a campaign they recently conducted to change physicians' beliefs and behaviors regarding chronic kidney disease. They will provide background on the study, as well as results.

Mark your calendar: First HCRG open meeting

We have reserved Derby 3116 September 25th for a "brownbag lunch" from 12 to 1 p.m. This will be an open meeting with graduate students and faculty from the School of Communication and the School of Public Health. All are welcome! Research projects, plans for the year, and other information related to health communication will be discussed.

>> Pizza will be provided! <<

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