Updates and New Stuff

Noteworthy announcements on what I’ve been doing lately.

I was so pleased to speak with the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science group Friday., Nov. 15, 2024. Librarians play a key role in stopping the spread of health-related mis-, mal- and disinformation.

New research published

Supporting someone through a chronic illness can be difficult. My multi-university team is designing and testing an online training module for support providers, to teach things like person-centered messaging, active listening, and the dangers of providing unsolicited advice. Part of this ongoing work was recently published in Health Communication.

Through the Center for Health Communication at UT-Austin, I created a FREE online training module for the Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute about health misinformation: what it is, why it’s tempting to believe, and how to talk with people who might buy into it.

Free online training published: Dealing With Conflicting Health Information

The Missoulian (Nov. 28, 2023)

A healthy skepticism: UM develops class to combat health misinformation