Walsh-Childers, Kim
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Walsh-Childers, Kim

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  • Walsh-Childers has taught at UF since August 1990. Her teaching areas include journalism ethics, newswriting, a graduate seminar in mass media and health and magazine feature writing.

    Her teaching areas include journalism ethics, newswriting, a graduate seminar in mass media and health and magazine feature writing. Her research focuses on print media news coverage of health issues, mass media effects on individual health and health policy, and the relationship between mass media content and adolescent sexual beliefs and behavior. Her work has been published in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Communication Research, Pediatrics, AIDS Education and Prevention, and the Journal of Adolescent Health Care.

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  • Dr. Walsh-Childers primary research interests are in 1) how media, particularly news media, communicate health information to the public; 2) how the public uses news media information about health, including Internet-based information, to make health decisions; 3) how news coverage of health issues influences public health policy development; 4) how exposure to media content influences adolescent health behaviors. She also has a long-standing interest in the challenges women journalists face and how they respond to those challenges.

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  • Dr Kim B Walsh-Childers

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  • kwchilders@jou.ufl.edu

phone

  • (352) 392-3924
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