An expert on health and interpersonal communication will join the University of Florida to direct the development of the STEM Translational Communication Program at the College of Journalism and Communications, Dean Diane McFarlin announced today.

Janice L. Krieger is being hired as part of UF Rising, the university’s push to become a top 10 public research university.  She will join the College as Associate Professor of Advertising and Director of the STEM Translational Communication Program. The program will invest in evaluating what goes into a successful translation – how, when, where and to whom to deliver potentially life-saving information in the areas of health and science.

“We couldn’t be more pleased that Janice is joining our faculty. She will lead our collaboration with colleagues from across UF, including some of the nation’s top researchers in medicine, engineering and health professions, to more effectively communicate the unique medical and engineering breakthroughs being discovered on this campus,” said McFarlin.

Krieger comes to the College from The Ohio State University’s School of Communication, where she serves as an associate professor. She is a member of the university’s Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Cancer Control Program and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Program. She also serves on the Ohio State Center for Population Health Disparities.

Krieger’s primary research focuses on health and interpersonal communication, especially in the area of cancer treatment and prevention, and she has conducted extensive research on prevention, treatment and education programs in the Appalachia Ohio area.

She is the principal investigator for several NIH projects, including a project on the development of family based clinical trials intervention for rural Appalachian cancer patients through the National Cancer Institute, and a project on adaptation processes in school-based substance abuse prevention funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

She has been published in journals such as Journal of Health Communication, Prevention Science, American Journal of Community Psychology, Health Communication, Journal of Family Communication, Health Expectations and Human Communication Research, among others.

A paper that she co-authored with one of her doctoral students has won the first-place ComSHER Article of the Year Award for AEJMC this year. The article, published in Health Communication, was selected the most outstanding piece in terms of contribution to the field, quality of writing and innovativeness.

Krieger’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and Spanish from Indiana Wesleyan University, and a master’s degree in speech communication and a doctorate degree in communication arts and sciences, from Pennsylvania State University.

Posted: June 19, 2014
Category: College News, Research News, STEM Center News
Tagged as: Janice Krieger, STEM Translational Communication Center