Associate Professor, Communication
Dr. Lauren Frank's expertise is in the development and evaluation of social and behavior change communication campaigns. She has studied pandemics, infectious diseases, vaccinations, maternal and child health, gender norms, adolescent sexual education, and a variety of other topics.
As part of this, she studies how people make health decisions and how social norms affect our choices. Much of her research examines entertainment-education, the process of intentionally adding educational information to entertaining media, including television and social media.