The Kentucky Conference on Health Communication Conference is coming April 4-6, 2024!

The 18th biennial Kentucky Conference on Health Communication is planned to be held in Lexington, Kentucky April 4-6, 2024. It will consist of 2.5 days of competitive paper, panel, and poster presentations, interactive workshops, networking sessions, and more! Information on the call for abstracts and other conference details coming soon! For more information, click here.


HCRC Mission

The Health Communication Research Collaborative (HCRC) joins faculty and students to promote inquiry into the field of health communication. Our general purpose is to spark internal and external communication about current health communication research, make graduate students aware of research opportunities, and provide a formal support network across the University for health communication scholarship, education, and service. By involving students in projects, faculty serve as mentors to the next generation of health communication scholars. In turn, students provide fresh perspectives into faculty community-based research and service. The HCRC is sponsored by the College of Communication and Information.


From The Director

The goal of the Health Communication Research Collaborative (HCRC) is to foster interdisciplinary collaborations in health communication research at the University of Kentucky. We do so by hosting meetings, workshops, training and professional development programs for faculty and graduate students and helping to plan the biennial Kentucky Conference on Health Communication (KCHC).

Our faculty has a reputation for creating innovative interdisciplinary partnerships and multidisciplinary research teams to tackle health communication challenges. Building on the tradition of a small group of National Institutes of Health-funded health communication researchers at the University of Kentucky (including Drs. Lewis Donohew and Phil Palmgreen), today we have more than 50 faculty and graduate students involved in tailored and targeted health message design research, implementation, dissemination, and evaluation projects. Read more…


Our Reputation

Our faculty has a reputation for creating innovative partnerships with faculty in the Colleges of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Dentistry, Design, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work to tackle health communication challenges. Building on the tradition of a small group of National Institutes of Health-funded health communication campaign researchers at the University of Kentucky, today we have more than 50 faculty and graduate students involved in tailored and targeted health message design research, implementation, dissemination, and evaluation.


UPCOMING EVENTS...

We hope you will attend the 2024 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication! For more information, click here.


NEWS OF INTEREST...

Congratulations to Dr. Nancy Grant Harrington, who was named a 2023 Fellow of the International Communication Association. Click here to read about it.