Biography

Dr. Holley Wilkin (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is an Assistant Professor, whose applied communication research focuses on reducing health disparities in diverse urban environments. She is an affiliated faculty member with the GSU Partnership for Urban Health Research. Wilkin joins the faculty after completing a postdoctoral research associate position at the USC Annenberg School for Communication where she worked as part of the Metamorphosis Project studying geo-ethnic communities in Los Angeles. She uses a multi-method approach to understanding the ecological nature of health problems and diagnosing community health storytelling including surveys, focus groups, interviews, content analysis of health storytelling in media, and experiments. Wilkin’s recent work has also concentrated on exploring the potential of entertainment-education and new technologies for health communication. Her research appears in the Journal of Health Communication and Journalism. Research Areas: health communication, media and interpersonal, communication campaigns. Degree Track Affiliations: Ph.D. (Public Communication), M.A. (Human Communication & Social Influence; Mass Communication). Core Graduate Seminars Regularly Taught: Health Communication, Research Methods in Communication, Communication Campaigns.