Communicating Health Equity: Strategies and Challenges for Public Health Communicators Click here to download the full report Key Findings: Public health communicators (public health leaders, journalists, advocates, and thought leaders) use data and stories to explain health equity but face communication challenges such...

Research Brief: Racism as a Public Health Crisis – How Declarations Shape Local TV News Attention to Racism Click here to download the full report Key Findings: Declarations related to increased media attention: Enacting a racism public health crisis declaration associated with an increase of 294 mentions of racism...

Highlighting Structural Drivers of Health Disparities to Bolster Support for Addressing Inequality: Evidence from Survey Experiments with Purposive Diverse Samples Click here to download the full report Key Findings: People of color drive engagement: Black, Hispanic, and Asian respondents expressed stronger concern, policy...

Dominant Narratives in Health Click Here to Download the Report What are “dominant narratives” of health? Narratives are the lenses through which people perceive and interpret events, issues, and the causes of and solutions to social problems. “Dominant narratives” are those in wide circulation that serve to reinforce...

Attention to, Predictors of, and Potential Consequences of Racism and Counter-Messaging in Mainstream Media Click here to download the full report Brief Report, January 2025 …we identify abundant evidence for robust and growing counter-messaging aimed at eroding support for policies to combat structural racism and...

“Do These Reminders that Disparities Exist Even Do Anything?” A Practitioner-Grounded Research Agenda on Communication and Health Equity Click here to download the full report Report on Listening Sessions with Four Types of Communicators in Practice, June 2024 Browse the Report Executive Summary Introduction What We Did What We...

Tips for Communicating About Health Disparities Click here to download the full report In a recent study published in Social Science & Medicine, Jiawei Liu and Jeff Niederdeppe examined studies about social comparison framing of health disparities. News stories, public health messages, and social...