Professional Organizations and Programs

HealthCOMM - Health Communication Around the World. Homepage of the Health Communication Division, National Communication Association. "Health Communication is an exciting and emerging field of interest and interdisciplinary study. The study and application of health communication addresses questions germane to interaction about human health. Public health campaigns, client-provider interactions, cultural constructions of health and illness, telemedicine, health journalism, environmental risk, and community-based health organizations are just a few of the topics considered under the rubric of "Health Communication.'"

InHealth Home Page. This website is "designed as a supplement to the InHealth newsgroup mailing list. It is dedicated to serving the community of health communication researchers, educators, practitioners and adminstrators by offering a variety of links to health and communication-related sites. This site is available to all, regardless of COMSERVE/CIOS [Communication Institute For On-Line Scholarship] affiliation, InHealth membership or membership in SCA [now the National Communication Association] or ICA [International Communication Association]."

University of Kentucky, Department of Communication. "Our academic focus is on interpersonal, small group, mass, and organizational communication, with special attention given to health communication in each of these areas."