The School of Journalism & Mass Communication is pleased to announce that Rebekah Nagler will join the faculty as an assistant professor in Fall 2013 to teach health communication courses.
Nagler is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Education Program in Cancer Prevention, which is situated within the Harvard School of Public Health/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communication and her dissertation focused on messaging around nutrition. Her research interests include media effects on health behavior, cancer communication, communication inequalities and health communication campaigns.
