my research is primarily concerned with improving health communication and advancing knowledge about persuasive communication.
i have summarized my broad research direction in this
research statement, and also provide brief overviews of my active research strands below.
how do health departments talk about cannabis?
i archived 140+ videos made by american health departments on cannabis, and conducted a rhetorical content analysis
this work was conceptualized and conducted by me independently, with funding from a summer research grant from temple's graduate school to cover research expenses
one manuscript currently under review for publication
how do "citizen journalists" portray the tranq epidemic in philadelphia?
my doctoral committee's research group drove a content analysis of how stigma operates in youtube videos capturing folks living with substance use disorder.
my role was building the dataset and assisting with manuscript writing and editing
manuscript accepted for publication to stigma & health in 2026
how do policymakers discuss gun violence?
as a methodologist at children's hospital of philadelphia, i helped conduct a rhetorical content analysis of hundreds of tweets and analyze the findings.
as part of my doctoral work, i am collecting focus group data and working towards an action research approach towards creating and testing new communication campaigns
as ongoing work, i am still in data collection and analysis and aim to have a manuscript under review in mid-2027
i also have conducted a great deal of qualitative research as an embedded mixed methods specialist at chop to advance efforts across a broad range of health issues, including:
how adolescents in chronic kidney disease thnk about physical activity, published in kidney medicine
how young people with idiopathic arthritis deal with medication adherence, published in the journal of pediatrics
my doctoral work is built on a community-based participatory research (cbpr) approach because of my conviction that only the target group itself can best define its needs
as ongoing work, i am still in data collection and analysis and aim to have a manuscript under review in mid-2027
how do we think about dehumanization in communication, and how can we incorporate this understanding into how we teach?