Health and Wellness Cluster

The health and wellness faculty cluster brings together faculty across the school whose research, teaching and service focus centrally on closing disparities and improving health and wellness outcomes for individual, groups, and communities in the U.S. and globally. Our work examines the evolving role that communication, information, and media play in facilitating personal and public health via a range of processes and mechanisms – health education and health literacy, risk communication, persuasion and social influence, social support, capacity-building, and informatics – and across a wide range of health challenges, including drug and alcohol addiction, cancer, HIV/AIDS, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health, and wellness more generally. We work closely and collaboratively with colleagues and practitioners across disciplines and professional practices to produce effective and sustainable solutions to these and other challenges, and we are equally committed to the education of our students and to the betterment of our communities.   

Chair

Itzhak Yanovitzky

Itzhak Yanovitzky

Professor of Communication and Chair of the SC&I Health and Wellness Faculty Cluster

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Faculty Members

Galina Bolden

Galina Bolden

Professor of Communication

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Kaitlin_Costello

Kaitlin L. Costello

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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lauren_feldman

Lauren Feldman

Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Sophia Fu

J. Sophia Fu

Assistant Professor of Communication

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Kathryn Green

Kathryn Greene

Professor of Communication

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Alexa Hepburn Photo

Alexa Hepburn

Research Professor of Communication

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 Shawnika Hull

Shawnika Hull

Associate Professor of Communication

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Sunyoung Kim

Sunyoung Kim

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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dafna_lemish

Dafna Lemish

Interim Dean and Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media Studies

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Administration

Calandra Lindstadt

Post-Doctoral Associate in the ASPEN Lab in Communication (Active Surveillance of Policy Ecosystems and Networks)

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Matthew Matsaganis

Matthew Matsaganis

Associate Professor of Communication

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Lisa Mikesell

Lisa Mikesell

Associate Professor of Communication

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Hartmut B. Mokros

Hartmut B. Mokros

PROFESSOR EMERITUS of Communication

Emeritus Faculty

Yanaira Rivera

Yonaira Rivera

Assistant Professor of Communication

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brent_ruben

Brent Ruben

Distinguished Professor of Communication, Advisor for Strategy and Planning in the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Senior University Fellow, Rutgers Center for Organization Leadership

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kristina_scharp

Kristina Scharp

Associate Professor of Communication

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Charles Senteio

Charles Senteio

Associate Professor of Library and Information Science

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Lea Stewart

Lea P. Stewart

Richard D. Heffner Professor of Communications and Public Policy; Director of the Center for Communication and Health Issues; Professor of Communication

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jen_theiss

Jennifer Theiss

Professor of Communication

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maria_venetis

Maria Venetis

Associate Professor of Communication

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