We want to understand how patients and healthcare providers do and don't communicate with one another - and then intervene to facilitate meaningful communication and decision making.

Our research programs develop, implement, and evaluate literacy and cross-cultural communication, and we are leaders in research design for multimedia messages addressing preventive health issues such as colorectal cancer screening and influenza vaccination.

Kenzie A. Cameron, PhD, MPH 

Marla L. Clayman, PhD, MPH 

Michael Wolf, PhD, MPH 

Mita Sanghavi Goel, MD, MPH 

David W. Baker, MD, MPH

Joyce W. Tang, MD

Elizabeth A. H. Wilson, PhD

To learn more about these priorities and supporting the Division, please call Maureen Mizwicki at 312/503-1090.