This site features initiatives led by Dr. Erica Austin

Erica Weintraub Austin (Ph.D., Stanford University) leads the Edward R. Murrow Collaborative for Media and Health Promotion Research in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Through her work, she is dedicated to collaborative efforts to help people use media to make decisions best for themselves and their communities. Her research focuses on how media literacy can facilitate healthier decision-making about health and civic affairs among children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Austin is internationally recognized for her research and outreach on how media literacy and parent-child communication about media contribute to decision making about health and civic affairs among children, adolescents and young adults. She has advised the Washington state and federal government and organizations nationwide on media literacy issues and health communication campaigns.

Dr. Austin has served as PI, subcontractor, or consultant on media literacy, health communication and campaign design/evaluation projects funded by organizations such as the Extension Collaborative on Immunization Teaching & Engagement (EXCITE), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture & Food Research Initiative, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, and the Washington State Department of Health. She has taught courses in public relations, health promotion and communication campaigns.

To learn more about Erica Austin’s research, you can look at her ORCID ID and her ScholarGPS

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