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UNC at the virtual Kentucky Conference of Health Communication

March 6, 2020

Five graduate students, two faculty members and various alumni will represent the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media on April 2-4, 2020, at the 16th biennial Kentucky Conference of Health Communication, held in a virtual format.

This year’s theme is "Intersectionality and Interdisciplinarity in Health Communication Research." These scholars will participate in panel sessions and present authored or co-authored papers and presentations.

Hussman School faculty and student activities at KCHC 2020 include:

Awards and honors
  • Professor Seth Noar will serve as an invited mentor at the KCHC conference. He will meet with groups of graduate students and early career scholars throughout the conference to discuss their career plans and offer advice.
Thursday, April 2
  • Seth Noar will participate in the panel session, "The art and science of writing successful health communication grant applications"
Friday, April 3
  • Ph.D. student Alex Kresovich will present “The influence of popular music referencing anxiety and depression on college students’ mental health attitudes.”
  • Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Adams, Seth Noar and co-authors will present “Fear before hope: Assessing the effect of emotional flow in a youth opioid prevention narrative.”
  • Ph.D. student Jacob Rohde and Ph.D. candidate Josh Barker will present “Discussions of inflammatory bowel disease on Reddit: Implications for patient support.”
Saturday, April 4
  • Assistant Professor Allison Lazard and Ph.D. student Meredith Collins will present “‘This is my story’: Processing of narratives and testimonials about adolescent e-cigarette use.”
  • Allison Lazard, M.A. alumna Laurie Hursting, Meredith Collins and co-authors will present “Leveraging Listicles (List Articles) to Educate Young Adults about the Harms of E-cigarettes.”
  • Jacob Rohde, Seth Noar, Alex Kresovich and co-authors will present “Understanding e-cigarette prevention ad effectiveness: A comparison of message and effects perceptions.”

The full conference program can be found on the KCHC website.