Events
Health Communication to Improve Social Interaction: Promoting Health Equity Amidst Rising Economic Inequality
Allison Lazard (our own professor at UNC Hussman and member of Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) and Barbara Fredrickson (Kenan Distinguished Professor and Director of the PEP Lab in Psychology and Neuroscience) will share insights from their collaborative work on using positive emotions science to design scalable behavioral interventions that promote young adults’ health and well-being through increased social connectedness.
What you’ll learn:
- Practical and empirical processes for optimizing intervention messages as social media posts (Lazard)
- Results from a randomized controlled trial with U.S. young adults incorporating these optimized messages (Fredrickson)
Light refreshments will be served. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about innovative approaches to health communication that intersect with media, psychology and public health.