The Department of Communication Studies is excited to offer a new PhD minor in Health Communication! Health communication is a rapidly growing field that contributes to the knowledge of and improvement in delivery of healthcare.
You will study areas such as patient advocacy, empowerment, and activation, patient-provider communication, shared decision-making, patient-caregiver communication, successful transfers of care among clinicians, communicative approaches to reducing healthcare disparities; and addressing clinician burnout.
Health communication scholarship adds unique and important dimensions to the study of healthcare and its delivery in a variety of fields, including public health, nursing, psychology, biomedical informatics, rehabilitation science, and other disciplines.
The PhD Minor in Health Communication consists of 12 hours of courses.
Two courses are required: COMM-C 592: Advanced Health Communication, and COMM-C 500: Advanced Communication Theory.
Students select two electives including:
Contact Kim White-Mills, Director of Ph.D. Program and Ph.D. Minors.
