Dale Brashers Memorial Lecture: Nancy Harrington, University of Kentucky

This year's Dale Brashers Memorial Lecture will feature Nancy Harrington from the University of Kentucky. This event page will be updated with more details of the lecture as they become available.

Dr. Nancy Harrington is a University Research Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. She also holds an academic appointment in the UK College of Public Health, is a faculty associate of the UK Multidisciplinary Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, and is a founding faculty associate of the UK Center on Health Equity Transformation. Harrington’s research focuses on persuasive message design for health behavior change interventions and challenging conversations in healthcare. She has been a principal investigator, co-investigator, principal evaluator, or consultant on several NIH-funded and CDC-funded studies. She has published close to 100 journal articles, chapters, and encyclopedia entries and has authored or edited four books, and was named an ICA Fellow in 2023. 

Harrington teaches persuasive message design and advanced theory construction at the graduate level, as well as undergraduate classes in communication theory, research methods, and health communication. She was awarded the NCA Health Communication Division’s Dale E. Brashers Distinguished Mentor Award in 2016. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Health Communication, Prevention Science, and Science Communication, and has served as guest editor for special issues of Journal of Communication and Health Communication. She was chair of the Health Communication division of NCA from 2004-2005, and is a founding member and steering committee member of the Society for Health Communication. Harrington is director of the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication and is director of the College of Communication and Information’s Health Communication Research Collaborative, a group of faculty and graduate students working to foster interdisciplinary research collaborations in health communication across the University of Kentucky.