Discipline(s):
Health Policy, Health Services Research
Area(s) of Expertise:
News Media and Public Opinion, Social Determinants of Health, Public Health Ethics, Mental Health Services, Genetics Policy Issues
E-Mail:
sgollust@umn.edu
Background:
Sarah Gollust will complete her Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Policy at the University of Michigan in the summer of 2008. Her dissertation research, relying upon quantitative content analysis and a survey-based experiment, assesses the impact of media coverage of Type 2 diabetes on the public’s support for preventive interventions, particularly policy strategies targeting the non-medical determinants of diabetes. During graduate school, she also conducted research on ethical issues in public health practice and mental health services for university students. Prior to her doctoral studies, Sarah was a research fellow at the Department of Bioethics and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. There, she conducted research on the ethical, social, and policy implications of genetic testing, including direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests. As a Health & Society Scholar, Sarah plans to expand her investigations of the roles of the media and public opinion in population health policy, focusing on the conditions under which news media frames of health problems activate political predispositions among the public. In addition, she plans to pursue research on the development, dissemination, and marketing of the scientific field of nutritional genomics, focusing on its implications for the public’s understanding of dietary risk of disease and political responsibility for diet and nutrition.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Sarah Gollust's available publications in PubMed.
