Sean Upshaw is a public health communications expert from the Moody College of Communication who is primarily focused on exploring the what, how, and why underserved populations in the U.S. engage with health messages. He is also presenting at this year’s Whole Communities—Whole Health Research Showcase. Here he talks about his work on the messaging around COVID-19 vaccine uptake among African Americans. 

The Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Workshop keynote speaker for 2023 is Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, Jacquelyn Taylor. Her pioneering, interdisciplinary research expertise straddles nursing, physiology, medicine, genetics, and social science and we are delighted to welcome her to UT Austin.

The Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Workshop keynote speaker for 2023 is Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing, Jacquelyn Taylor. Her pioneering, interdisciplinary research expertise straddles nursing, physiology, medicine, genetics, and social science and we are delighted to welcome her to UT Austin.

Researchers from UT Austin have been awarded a prestigious grant from the UK’s Wellcome Trust to understand how flood and storm surge modeling could help inform infectious disease spread in Texas and beyond.