Elaine Hsieh

JD: Health Law, University of Oklahoma, 2019
Ph.D.: Health Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
MA: Translation and Interpreting Studies (Chinese-English), Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1999
BAs: Chinese Literature and English Literature, National Central University, 1997

Specialties

Health Communication, with an emphasis of interpersonal and intercultural issues in health contexts
Culture and Health, with a focus on cultural frameworks and perspectives that shape individual health behaviors and institutional policies
Interpreting Studies, highlighting the communicative and interactive nature of interpreter-mediated interactions

Publications

Open Close

Publications

Hsieh, E. & Kramer, E. M. (2021). Rethinking culture in health communication: Social interactions as intercultural encounters. Wiley.
Hsieh, E. (2016). Bilingual Health Communication: Working with interpreters in cross-cultural care. Routledge.
Hoffman, S. J., Fredkov, W., Vukovich, M., Hsieh, E., Moo, H., & Dini, Z.Z. (in press). Ushering a witness: A psychosocial theory of material intrafamily trauma communication in the refugee family system. Journal of Family Nursing.
Larsen, S., Needle, J., Hsieh, E., Evans, M.D., & Shapiro, M.C. (in press). Professional interpreter use when a child is dying: A survey of pediatric critical care clinicians. Hospital Pediatrics.
Hsieh, E., & Ma., X (2024). Healthcare interpreting as a socially contextualized activity.s as coordinated accomplishment: Expertise and accountability in cross-cultural care. The Routledge handbook of translation and sociology, 276-291.
Hsieh, E. (2024). Foreword: Building a resilient, pluralistic community through knowledge production. Theory and application of health acculturation: A communication perspective, xiii-xvii.
Hsieh, E., Morrissey, B. S., & Chiareli, I. A. (2024). The landscape of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in reproductive health contexts: An analytical framework of stakeholders and their competing motivations. Health Communication, 39, 13.
Hsieh, E. (2022). Intercultural health communication: Rethinking culture in health communication. Routledge handbook of health communication, (3rd ed.; pp. 441-455). Routledge.
Terui, S., & Hsieh, E. (2022). Language barriers as a social phenomenon: Distinctive impacts on health communication in Japan and the United States. Global health communication for immigrants and refugees: Cases, theories, and strategies, (pp. 63-77). Routledge.
Hsieh, E. (2022). Model of bilingual health communication. Communication theory: Racially diverse and inclusive perspectives, (pp. 171-180). Cognella.
Chang, D. F., Hsieh, E., Somerville, W. B., Diamond, J., Thomas, M., Nicasio, A., Boiler, M., & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2021). Rethinking interpreter functions in mental health services. Psychiatric Services, 72(3), 353-357.

Activities

Open Close

Activities

Professional

Invited Speaker: Hsieh, E. Rethinking language and culture in community-based work and interpreter-mediated research. CrEER Peer Mentoring Group, Rutgers University, NJ. [poster] [recorded lecture]. November 8, 2024
Presentation at Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, UNC-Chapel Hill: Hsieh, E. Communicating across cultures: Why traditional approaches fail to educate and empower patients. Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds, Center for Bioethics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC. ** Continuing education credits offered.. April 10, 2024
Invited Speaker: Hsieh, E. Rethinking culture in social interactions: Invoked identities and/or invisible structural frame? Colloquium to celebrate 75 years of Department of Communication (1947-2022), Department of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. January 27, 2023

Outreach

Presentation at Oregon Bioethics and Humanities Colloquium: Hsieh, E. Conceptualizing culture in healthcare contexts: A theoretical framework. Oregon Bioethics and Humanities Colloquium (OBHC), Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR. May 19, 2023
Lectures and Workshops at UNC School of Medicine: Invited lectures and workshops by the Center of Bioethics of UNC School of Medicine to explore ethical issues in language and culture as a part of lecture series in the Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds and Academy of Educators. In addition, I will host workshops for professional interpreters and clinicians. The lecture topics are: Providing Optimal Care When Providers and Patients Do Not Share the Same Language and Conceptualizing Culture in Healthcare Contexts: A Theoretical Framework. October 12-13, 2022
NPR Interview: was interviewed by Marco Werman, host of The World, about how different cultures express gratitude. Hsieh, E. (2021, November 24). How and when we should say 'thank you.' The World. [Radio broadcast]. PRX. November 24, 2021

Awards

Open Close

Awards

Reimagining Language Equity: Defining Best Practices in Partnering with Informal Interpreters of Somali Families in the Neonatal Intensive Care. , Masonic Cross-Departmental grant, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota. PIs: Jennifer Needle and Elaine Hsieh. $200,000 , 2024
Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma, I was awarded the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship, one of the highest honors at OU. The presidential professorship recognizes faculty members who excel in all their professional activities and who relate those activities to the student they teach and mentor., 2022
Distinguished Book Award, 2021 NCA Health Communication Division, Hsieh, E. (2016). Bilingual health communication: Working with interpreters in cross-cultural care. Routledge., 2021
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Research Project: Quality of Care for Interpreter-Mediated Medical Encounters in Taiwan. Arts, Education, Humanities, Professional Fields and Social Sciences-- Research (Award #5130), Taiwan. Sponsored by the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 07/24/2015-01/15/2016

Courses

Open Close

Courses

COMM3110: Conceptualizing culture in health contexts
COMM3625W: Communication Ethics
COMM3631: Freedom of Speech
COMM5110: Health Communication: Medicine, Culture, & Health
COMM8110: Qualitative Research Methods in Social Sciences