INTRODUCTION
Dr. Nan Zhao Martin is an applied health communication scholar. Her research and teaching interests include social influences, health information seeking, and message designs. She was born and raised in Beijing, China, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Communication, 2015
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Communication, 2013
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in Health Behavior and Health Education, 2009
School of Public Health at the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Bachelor of Medicine (B.M.) in Maternal and Child Health, 2003
Health Science Center at the Peking University Health Science Center
Beijing, China
TEACHING INTERESTS
Health communication, research methods, social influences, health information seeking
RESEARCH
Dr. Martin's research focuses on a critical sub-discipline of communication called health communication. Specifically, her work concentrates on people’s everyday communication contexts – such as neighborhood environment, media environment, and interpersonal environments – and examines how people encounter, process, understand, talk about, and act upon health information within those contexts. Her scholarship embraces mixed research methods and intersects the theoretical foundations of social and behavioral science, communication, message design, and public health. Her recent and ongoing work has primarily surrounded health information inequalities concerning preventive service utilization, such as Pap test screening, HPV vaccination, and barriers to healthcare, with a focus on immigrant and minority populations.
PUBLICATIONS
Martin, N. Z., Murphy, S. T., Ball-Rokeach, S., Frank, L. B., & Moran, M. B. (2018). Neighborhoods and perceived norms: Understanding the impact of neighborhoods on perceived norms and cancer screening. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1504655
Liu, W., Son, M., Wenzel, A., An, Z., Martin, N.Z., Nah, S., & Ball-Rokeach, S. (2018). Bridging mechanisms in multiethnic communities: Place-based communication, neighborhood belonging, and intergroup relations. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(1), 58–80. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2017.1384506
Moran, M. B., Gonzalez, C., Zhao, N., Chen, N., Thainiyom, P., Ball-Rokeach, S., & Murphy, S. (2017). Field observation of communication hotspots in Los Angeles. SAGE Research Methods Cases.
Moran, M. B., Chatterjee, J. S., Frank, L. B., Murphy, S. T., Zhao, N., Chen, N., & Ball-Rokeach, S. (2016). Individual, cultural and structural predictors of vaccine safety confidence and influenza vaccination among Hispanic female subgroups. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 1–11. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-016-0428-9
Moran, M. B., Frank, L. B., Zhao, N., Gonzalez, C., Thainiyom, P., Murphy, S. T., & Ball-Rokeach, S. J. (2016). An argument for ecological research and intervention in health communication. Journal of Health Communication, 21(2), 135–138. http://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2015.112802
Murphy, S.T., Frank, L.B., Chatterjee, J., Moran, M.B., Zhao, N. & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2015). Comparing the relative efficacy of narrative versus non-narrative health messages in reducing health disparities using a randomized trial. American Journal of Public Health.
Zhao, N., Huh, J., Murphy, S. T., Chatterjee, J., & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2014). Self-construal as a predictor of Korean American women’s intention to vaccinate daughters against human papillomavirus. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 5(2), 96-105.