Professor John C. Pollock and several health communication alumni co-authored US Nationwide Multi-City Media Coverage of COVID-19 Responses: Community Structure Theory, Belief System, and a “Violated Way of Life” which was recently published in Journal of Health Communication.
The alumni included Miranda Crowley; Abigail Lewis; Alexis (Marta) Petry; Radhika Purandare; and Suchir Govindarajan; and James Sparano.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to co-author an article in the most distinguished health communication journal in the US, the Journal of Health Communication, with so many of our talented interdisciplinary health communication undergraduates from both Communication Studies and Public Health departments, many of whom have gone on to a variety of outstanding graduate programs or occupational positions,” Pollock said.
Crowley earned a MPA from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Lewis earned a MPH from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Petry earned a MSPH from Johns Hopkins. Purandare went to Sweden as a Fulbright Scholar for a year, then earned a MPH from Columbia. Govindarajan is the Special Assistant to the Secretary and a Policy Analyst at the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education. Sparano is an accomplished landscaper and hemp marketer.