Dear Heath Communication Interest Group (HCIG) members,
This is a gentle reminder that your competitive paper and/or discussion panel submission to the 2025 Central States Communication Association Annual Conference is due by October 5, 2024, 11:59 pm CDT. Hope to see you all in Cincinnati in April!
Xiaoxia Cao
Secretary of HCIG
Health Communication Interest Group
Call for Papers and Panels
Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Annual Convention-Cincinnati, OH
April 1-6, 2025
Widening the Scope
The Health Communication Interest Group invites submissions of competitive papers and panels to be considered for programming at the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) convention, April 1-6, 2025, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Our interest group focuses on helping researchers, practitioners, and the general public better grasp, appreciate, use, and articulate health communication research, practice, and teaching. Health communication scholars also monitor and evaluate the efficacy of community-based, communication-driven, and health-related applications. The interest group is dedicated to engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration to develop curricular innovations centering on health communication. Thus, scholarship, community outreach, and pedagogy comprise our mission.
We welcome submissions on all topics which advance our mission, especially those that address the conference theme, Widening the Scope. Widening the scope of health communication research might involve approaching health communication from a new perspective, recruiting samples from diverse populations, considering the role of AI and computer mediated communication, facilitating student-led projects, or collaborating with scholars and practitioners outside of communication science. We enthusiastically encourage submissions from students and panel submissions that include panelists from multiple institutions. The Health Communication Interest Group offers three awards: top paper, top student paper, and top panel.
Submission Guidelines
Competitive Papers:
Discussion and Paper Panels:
All papers and panel proposals must be submitted electronically using Microsoft Word. Documents sent using any other format will be returned to the sender.
All technology requests must be made at the time of submission.
Deadline for submissions: October 5, 2024, 11:59 PM CDT
Send submissions electronically through our CSCA online submission system site.
Questions about the Health Communication Interest Group, please contact the Chair: Dr. Amanda Cooper (amandacooper@uconn.edu)
Questions about the general call or the 2024 conference, please contact the Primary Program Planner: Dr. Jeffrey Child (jeffrey.child@unlv.edu)