People Group Archives: 2022 Presenter

Xuerong Lu is a doctoral candidate at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. Her primary research areas focus on how publics respond to competing and conflicting information (e.g., misinformation vs. corrective information) spread on social media in times of public health crisis or risk situations.

Dr. Yu’s research focuses on health communication and communication technology with an emphasis on health promotion using digital technologies and health messages tailored to specific audience members. Her scholarly work includes studies pertaining to health information seeking, immigrant health, health message effects, social and cultural construction of health, global health, and user experience of touch-screen […]

Ronisha Sheppard is a second year PhD student at Wayne State University. Her primary research focus is on risk and crisis communication strategies. Breakout Session 3: March 8, 2:45-4:00 PM Convergence, cascading and overlapping crises.

Matthew W. Seeger is a professor of communication at Wayne State. His work on crisis communication include Effective Crisis Communication (2007), Theorizing Crisis Communication (2014, 2020), Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (Second Edition, 2015), Narratives of Crisis: Stories of Ruin and Renewal (2016) and the International Handbook of Crisis Communication (2016). Breakout Session 3: March […]

Khairul Islam is a Ph.D. Candidate at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He studies health-risk and crisis communication from public health standpoint. His work has been published in top journals including the Journal of Business Ethics and Health Communication. Breakout Session 4: March 8, 4:15-5:30 PM Promoting COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color: An analysis […]

Lakelyn E. Taylor is a third-year doctoral candidate at the University of Central Florida. She is currently a UCF research fellow, graduate teaching assistant, and graduate research assistant. Her research interests lie at the intersection of risk and crisis communication in the contexts of religion, ethics, and instruction. Breakout Session 6: March 9, 1:00-2:15 PM […]

Olivier Champagne-Poirier is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. He specializes in qualitative research and works on numerous projects related to COVID-19 and various natural and industrial disasters. Breakout Session 6: March 9, 1:00-2:15 PM Deciphering the media eclipse: An analysis of Canadian journalistic coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marie-Eve Carignan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication of the Université de Sherbrooke and Head of Media Division, UNESCO Chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Violent Extremism. Breakout Session 6: March 9, 1:00-2:15 PM Deciphering the media eclipse: An analysis of Canadian journalistic coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marc D. David is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Sherbrooke. He specializes in strategic communication and marketing communication analysis and works on numerous projects related to health and various natural and industrial disasters. Breakout Session 6: March 9, 1:00-2:15 PM Deciphering the media eclipse: An analysis of Canadian journalistic […]

Najma Akhther is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University. Najma is also an Assistant Professor of the Journalism and Media Studies program at Jahangirnagar University (JU) in Bangladesh. She is presently on leave for her doctoral study. Najma’s research interest lies at the intersection of health-risk and crisis communication […]