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.