Final Meeting Monday May 14th!

Our final meeting of the year will be held this Monday, May 14^th from 12 to 1 p.m. in 3116 Derby Hall. Dr. Andrew Hayes will be presenting on various content-analysis issues, including his recommendations—and SPSS macros—for assessing inter-coder reliability. Please also bring ideas for next year’s meetings.

We will be celebrating a successful first year of the group with a pizza lunch from Donatos, including vegetarian (i.e., healthy!) options. Water will be provided.

See you there!

Upcoming psych colloquia

Hi everyone:

There are three colloquia in the psych department in May that you might be interested in.

* Tobacco prevention research interests? On May 10 @ 2pm, Dr. Gary Berntson from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program will speak on "Tobacco Woes & the Miracle of Marlboro: A Case Study in the Conflation of Science and Industry (or Science and Reality)." Location: 035 Psych Bldg.

* Using perceived norms as a variable and/or wanna hear someone who's been, well, influential in the field of influence? On May 10 @ 4pm, Dr. Robert Cialdini will give a talk on injunctive and descriptive norms. He'll be talking about applications in environmental research, but the distinction between these types of norms has been important in health comm/prevention research, too. Location: 035 Psych Bldg. http://sbig.org.ohio-state.edu/06-07/Cialdini.html

* Identity or social comparison research interests? On May 17 @ 4pm, Dr. Marilyn Brewer will give a talk with the intriguing title "The Human Dilemma: Being the Same and Different at the Same Time." Location: Wexner Center Film/Video Theater. This is one in a series of University Distinguished Lectures, so there will be a reception to follow.

You can check out the pscyh department's Web site for more information, although I have to say that there isn't one place that lists everything (since they're put on by different research groups). http://www.psy.ohio-state.edu/

Nori

New grant competition

As posted on the OSU COPS blog... might be of interest to HCRG members.

SPECIAL CALL DEADLINE: July 1st, 2007

ATTENTION ALL SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHERS:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORIGINAL DATA COLLECTION VIA TESS!

The National Science Foundation, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, is funding opportunities for original data collection for research that has potential relevance to the concerns of DHS. Three broad substantive areas have been identified as relevant and likely avenues for research:

1. Risk communication and its effects on disaster preparedness
2. Government and individual attributions of responsibility and perceived responsiveness; and
3. Inter-group threat and cooperation

Other areas of research with relevance to terrorism, disaster preparedness, or related public health and medical issues will also be considered.

Data collection for these projects will be paid for and conducted with the assistance of Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS). As with other TESS applications, only a short, 5 page proposal is required.

TESS offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly selected subject populations, or on specific subsamples of the population (based on geographic location, demographics, or other criteria). For more information on this special call or on TESS opportunities more generally, and for examples of TESS studies completed in the past, please visit our home page at www.ExperimentCentral.org.

PLEASE NOTE: For those with other areas of interest, TESS continues to fund data collection for survey-experimental work in all areas of the social sciences, and for graduate student and faculty investigators in all disciplines. These proposals are accepted on a rolling basis, and we will continue accepting new proposals as our funding allows.

4/30 meeting canceled

Because of the School's external review on Monday, 4/30, the HCRG meeting is canceled. Please check back for announcements on the next meeting's schedule.

Call for presentations 4/30

There is an opening for a presentation from any HCRG member at our next meeting April 30th. Please email hoffman.405@osu.edu or slater.59@osu.edu if you are interested!

Our next meeting, Monday 4/16

Our next HCRG meeting will be Monday, April 16 from 12 to 1 p.m. in 3116 Derby Hall. The first half-hour will be open discussion, and Dr. Robert Agunga will present from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Below is a description of his presentation.

Dr. Robert Agunga, Associate Professor in Agricultural Communication with a courtesy associate professor appointment in the School of Communication, a member of the Health Communication Group, and a 2007/8 Fulbright Scholar will present his research on "Communication and poverty reduction in Africa."

As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Agunga will spend a year at the University of Malawi, Bunda College of Agriculture, in southern Africa where he will assist in developing a graduate curriculum in development communication and conduct field research on communication for poverty reduction toward a book on Communication for development in Africa that will focus on the role of communication in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Welcome to PhD student Parul Jain

Parul Jain, who received her masters degree from Wake Forest and who is transferring from Texas A&M, will be joining us at OSU this fall. Welcome to Parul!

HCRG Welcomes Dana Eisenberg to OSU

Dana Eisenberg just informed me that she will be joining our M.A. program in the fall. Dana is graduating from The College of New Jersey this Spring, and will be coming to OSU with a number of impressive credentials already under her belt (including multiple conference papers and even a top paper award at NCA). Please join me in Welcoming Dana to OSU!

New health communication web sites

As in the past, the Coalition for Health Communication has provided a thorough list of healch communication web sites categorized by topic. Go to http://www.healthcommunication.net/Online_Resources.html
to see the full list.

Next meeting April 2nd

Have a great spring break! Our next meeting will be April 2nd in Derby Hall, Room 3116 as usual.

Janice, Tony, Mira receive Population and Health Seed Grant Won!

Congratulations are in order.
Anthony Roberto, Janice Raup Krieger, and Mira Katz (Public Health) have been awarded $59,510 through the Population and Health Targeted Investment in Excellence initiative with funds provided by the Provost's Office for their proposal, Development of a Community-based Intervention to Improve Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Appalachia.
This is a really exciting opportunity to develop a major funded line of research on this timely topic with a population with unduly high cervical cancer rates.
And I can say (as a member of the review team--recused of course from review of their proposal) that this seed money competition involved many senior scholars and sophisticated proposals from around campus; this award meant that a diverse review group including representation from economics, psychology, and public health all found the proposal exciting and well-conceived.

Mike Slater and Nori Commello Receive Top Paper Award at ICA

Congratulations to Mike Slater (SBS Distinguished Professor) and Nori Commello (Ph.D. student) for their Top Three Paper in the Health Communication Division at ICA this year. Their paper is entitled “Issue Concern and Risk Judgments as Mediators of News Influence on Support for Alcohol Control Policies.”

Note: That’s at least three years in a row where an OSU health communication faculty has had a Top Three Paper at a national or international conference (Prabu David had one at ICA in 2006, Don Cegala had one at NCA in 2005, and I had one at both NCA and ICA in 2005). We’ve also had a nice streak of Top Student Papers in Health Com (Kellie Carlyle got a Top Student Paper at ICA in 2005, and Catherine Goodall received the Top Student-lead paper at ICA in 2006 – coauthored with Dr. Osei Appiah). Great work everyone! And thanks to Mike and Nori for continuing this impressive streak!

Putting Your (Health Comm) Money Where Your Mouth Is: Bangladesh's One Taka Coin

Greetings everyone, At today’s HCRG meeting I passed out one taka coins (the taka is the monetary unit in Bangladesh). I think these coins represent an excellent example of how a country is (literally) putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to a health communication campaign (overpopulation and hunger are still very real problems in Bangladesh -- and the visual and written message on the one taka coin is aimed at preventing both of these problems).

If you didn’t get a coin today, I have lots left (so feel free to stop by my office to get a couple). I’ve also included an image of the coin with this post in case you want to use it as an example in class, etc.. Note: The slogan on the coin reads: “Planned Family – Food For All.” Hope you find this as interesting as I do. Cordially, Tony Roberto

congrats to Kellie Carlyle accepting ASU job

Join me in congratulating PhD candidate Kellie Carlyle, who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position at Arizona State University starting next fall. She had several other exciting opportunities, but ASU looks like a great fit for her work on mediated and interpersonal communication approaches to preventing and addressing intimate partner violence.

Next HCRG meeting: March 5

Lindsay Hoffman will be presenting a research proposal on effects of media presentations of menopause. As usual, please come to 3116 Derby Hall at 12 noon and feel free to bring a lunch or snack. Nori Comello will also be presenting on some of her research. We will also discuss the next quarter's meeting schedule, as this is the last meeting of Winter quarter.

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Recent grad publishes book based on her dissertation

An OSU School of Communication graduate has a forthcoming book from Cambria Press that is based on her dissertation. Juliann Cortese (Ph.D., 2005) was an advisee of Chip Eveland and her book, "Internet Learning and the Building of Knowledge," looks at how design elements such as pop-up windows and hyperlinks influence knowledge structure density as well as definitional and factual knowledge. The book is a great example of one of our former students' successes, but is also relevant to any HCRG members working on new technology, learning, and health information seeking.

You can order the book from Amazon or directly from Cambria Press.

Next HCRG meeting: Feb 5

Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday Feb. 5th at 12 noon. Dr. Mira Katz from the School of Public Health and Dr. Janice Raup-Krieger from the School of Communication are presenting about a content analysis of newspaper articles about the HPV vaccine.

Hope to see you there!

Next meeting, Jan 22nd

Our next Health Communication Research Group meeting will be in 3116 Derby Hall Monday, Jan 22nd at 12 noon. Jason Reineke, a doctoral student in the School of Communication, will be presenting.

As always, feel free to bring lunch or a snack (and it doesn't have to be healthy!). See you then.

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.