RESEARCH INTERESTS
Health Communication & Social Media
Designing communication-based interventions to combat misinformation, encourage pro-social health behavior, and increase support for evidence-based health policy on politically and socially contentious issues.
Health Politics, Policy, & Opinion
Identifying the social, psychological, and political origins -- and assessing public health consequences -- of health misinformation and opposition to evidence-based health policies. (Including public trust in scientific institutions, vaccine policy, and more).
Public Health Impact of Problem Gambling
Identifying the social, psychological, and contextual causes of problem gambling behavior (including sports betting, prediction markets), how advertising impacts gambling behavior, and the impacts of gambling on public health.
Survey Methodology
Data quality, questionnaire design, question wording effects
Experimental Methodology
Randomized controlled trials, survey experiments, conjoint experiments, quasi- & naturally occurring experiments, regression discontinuity, and difference-in-difference estimation.