Skip to main content

Narrative Approach Can Change Minds on Child Care Spending

By Tom Fleischman How do you capture hearts and minds when it comes to increasing public support for policies and programs related to early childhood education? According to new multi-institution research led by Jeff Niederdeppe, professor in the Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University,...

Continue reading

New Study on Paid Family Leave on Local Television News in the U.S.

Our team, led by Margaret Tait, recently published the results of a study exploring local television news coverage related to paid family leave policy in SSM-Population Health. A team of trained coders conducted a content analysis of relevant local news stories airing in 2018 and 2019 on the four major networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX) in all 210...

Continue reading

Synthesizing Knowledge and Gaps in Research to Inform Communication Strategies in Building a Culture of Health

On January 15, 2020, the COMM HSP team convened an invitation-only research workshop called “Synthesizing Knowledge and Gaps in Research to Inform Communication Strategies in Building a Culture of Health”, held at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. 

Continue reading