Rebekah Nagler

nagle026@umn.edu

612-625-9388

Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication

304 Murphy Hall

206 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication

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I am Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and an associate professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. My research examines the effects of routine exposure to health information in the media, with a particular focus on conflicting and often controversial health information. I have additional research interests in communication and health equity and am a member of the Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health and Social Policy. My work has been funded by agencies and organizations including the National Cancer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and American Cancer Society. From 2014-2017, I was supported by a career development award through the University of Minnesota's NIH-funded Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program. I received my PhD in Communication and my BA in the History and Sociology of Science, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

PhD: Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2010
BA: History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Harvard Education Program in Cancer Prevention, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2010-2013

Specialties

Health communication
Cancer communication
Communication and health equity
Media effects

Publications

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Publications

Nagler, R.H., Vogel, R.I., Gollust, S.E., Yzer, M.C., & Rothman, A.J. (2022). Effects of prior exposure to conflicting health information on responses to subsequent unrelated health messages: Results from a population-based longitudinal experiment. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 56(5), 498-511. DOI: 10.1093/abm/kaab069
Nagler, R.H., Vogel, R.I., Rothman, A.J., Yzer, M.C., & Gollust, S.E. (2022). Vulnerability to the effects of conflicting health information: Testing the moderating roles of trust in news media and research literacy. Health Education & Behavior. DOI: 10.1177/10901981221110832
Shi, W., Rothman, A.J., Yzer, M.C., & Nagler, R.H. (2022). Effects of exposure to conflicting health information on perceptions of scientists’ and journalists’ credibility: Results from a population-based survey experiment. Health Communication. DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2022.2077163
Gollust, S.E., Nagler, R.H., & Fowler, E.F. (2020). The emergence of COVID-19 in the U.S.: A public health and political communication crisis. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 45(6), 967-981. DOI: 10.1215/03616878-8641506
Nagler, R.H., Vogel, R.I., Gollust, S.E., Rothman, A.J., Fowler, E.F., & Yzer, M.C. (2020). Public perceptions of conflicting information surrounding COVID-19: Results from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults. PLOS ONE, 15(10), e0240776. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240776
Fowler, E.F., Nagler, R.H., Banka, D., & Gollust, S.E. (2022). Effects of politicized media coverage: Experimental evidence on HPV vaccine and COVID-19 (pp. 101-134). In T. Bolsen & R. Palm (Eds.), Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization (Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science Book Series, Volume 188). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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