Communication Studies at TCNJ

The purpose of the Public Health Communication Club (PHCC) is to give the rapidly growing fields of public health and health communication a presence on the TCNJ campus. With co-advisors Dr. Pollock and Dr. Hu, this club will complement the Health Communication Concentration and the Public Health minor. This club is primarily academic and service oriented. Students will have the chance to network with those who share their interests while collaborating on new areas of study, gathering information, and implementing their work around campus. The primary focus of the club will be a Speaker’s Series to draw attention to the numerous benefits of the health communication field. Lastly, the club will look at current event issues in public health as well as discuss opportunities available in the field and in continuing education. This includes working with related organizations to enhance the club’s efforts.

David Oshinsky PBS Interview on the Fight Against Polio

April 24, 2006

The TCNJ lecture on the history of the fight against polio by Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian Dr. David Oshinsky, illuminated several hallmark events in the struggle against the disease. The following PBS interview with Oshinsky helps everyone understand the importance of this first mass mobilization, through the “March of Dimes” of the American public to find a way to prevent what was perhaps the most dreaded disease for children in the twentieth century.

Douglas Storey Tells A Worldwide Health Communication Story

Article by Angela Pineiro from The Roar (Fall 2010 – Volume 3, Issue 1)

Douglas Storey, associate director for the Center of Communication Studies at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health, visited T C N J on Thursday, November 11, to present “Thirty Years of Adventures in Communication : Global Programs, Local Impact” as a part of the TCNJ Center for the Arts Brown Bag series, co-sponsored with the Communication Studies Department’s student Public Health Communication Club. Dr. Storey spoke to students and faculty about living and working in 25 different countries around the world, mostly on behalf of Johns Hopkins, the number one-ranked public health university in the US, presenting two of his most successful projects promoting “health competent” societies…

From left: Dr. John Laughton, Dr. Douglas Storey, and Dr. Pollock Public Health Communication Club co-presidents Katie Ward and Jackie Webb discuss the event with Dr. Pollock, PHCC faculty co-advisor.

Public Health Communication Club co-presidents
Katie Ward and Jackie Webb discuss the event with
Dr. Pollock, PHCC faculty co-advisor.

Students Get a Sneak Peek at Safe Sex Video Games

Article by Carly Koziol from The Roar (Fall 2011 – Volume 4, Issue 1)

Students and professors poured into Mayo Concert Hall on Oct. 7 awaiting Dr. Leslie Snyder‘s highly anticipated presentation, ―Sex and Videogames: Promoting Health in a Fun Way.
Leslie Snyder, Ph.D., a Communication Studies professor at the University of Connecticut and director of a health institute there, is in the process of developing a video game under the Centers for Disease Control Center of Excel- lence Grant. Her video game is a unique attempt to promote safe sex among poor, urban African- American males between the ages of 18 and 26.