A unique transdisciplinary collaboration of public communication and public health researchers, delivering insights to inform preventive programs and design effective interventions.

Preventive and clinical approaches to health increasingly acknowledge the social dimensions of health such as lifestyle and psychosocial and environmental influences, and recognise the need to address these alongside provision of healthcare services. The UTS Health Communication Research Group supports this holistic approach by bringing together leading researchers in public communication and public health to collaboratively study health issues and inform the design of effective strategies and campaigns.

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the importance of effective communication and its role in building trust and improving and maintaining public health.

The UTS Health Communication Research Group provides a ‘one stop’ source of research expertise across public communication, health promotion, and health education employing qualitative and quantitative approaches including innovative research methods to engage with diverse and marginalised communities as well as mainstream demographics.

Hallmarks of our approach are consultation, collaboration, and co-design to deeply engage with communities to understand their lived experience and mobilise healthy behaviours and participation in health interventions.

Contact us

Convenor: Jim Macnamara – jim.macnamara@uts.edu.au

Research Office: FASS.FRO@uts.edu.au