Communicating About Health

Athena du Prè, Ph.D. is a professor of communication and director of the Strategic Communication & Leadership master's degree program and the Health Communication Leadership graduate-level certificate program at the University of West Florida. Her research interests include patient-caregiver communication, coping with health crises, humor and healing, and workplace dynamics. Dr. du Pré is a former journalist and hospital public relations director. She received a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. Since joining the UWF faculty, she has twice been honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards by the student body. She is also co-author, with Ron Adler and George Rodman, of Oxford's Understanding Human Communication and Essential Communication.Barbara Cook Overton earned a Ph.D. in Health Communication from Louisiana State University and is the author of Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records: An Emergency Room Ethnography (2019).

It includes great practical advice and is written at an appropriate level for an undergraduate introductory course. It doesn't presume prerequisites or knowledge of communication" -Lauren Frank, Portland State University