Rachel Smith

Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Rachel Smith

Research Summary

Quantitative social scientist whose interests lie broadly in social influence and social systems, specializing on power, networks, and stigma. Design and evaluation of effective health campaigns. Infectious diseases and genomics.

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Communication Health Game Theory Stigma Public Health Stigmatization Infectious Diseases Antibiotics Malaria Group Communication Theory Social Network Microbial Drug Resistance Genes Anti Bacterial Agents Linguistics Metaphor Contagious Disease Infection Community Experiments Experiment Human Being Campaign Disease

Most Recent Papers

Stigma, communication, and health

Xun Zhu, Rachel Smith, 2021,

How Americans Make Sense of Two Novel Pandemics

Edward L. Fink, Rachel A. Smith, Deborah A. Cai, Heeyoung Jung, Joseph Woelfel, 2021, Health Communication

Standing out while fitting in: Examining linguistic choices by boundary spanners.

Xun Zhu, Rachel Smith, 2020, Communication Monographs

PCAS: A collaborative approach to antibiotic stewardship in Pennsylvania

Tabitha Reefer, Rachel Smith, Nicole Hackman, 2020, Journal of Lancaster General Hospital on p. 36-43

A stress buffering perspective on the progression of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency

Xi Tian, Denise Haunani Solomon, Rachel A. Smith, 2020, Health Communication on p. 747-755

Communal Innovations

Rachel A. Smith, Youllee Kim, Stephen A. Matthews, Eleanore D. Sternberg, Dimi Théodore Doudou, Matthew B. Thomas, 2020, Journal of Health Communication on p. 1-10

Precise Persuasion

Rachel A. Smith, Edward L. Fink, Adriana Romano, Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha, 2020, Journal of Health Communication on p. 1-14

Exploring patterns of social relationships among food bloggers on twitter using a social network analysis approach

Allison D. Hepworth, Jess Kropczynski, Justin Walden, Rachel A. Smith, 2019, Journal of Social Structure

Dynamic and game theory of infectious disease stigmas

Timothy Reluga, Rachel Annette Smith, David Peter Hughes, 2019, Journal of Theoretical Biology on p. 95-107

Insights into stigma management communication theory

Rachel A. Smith, Rachael E. Bishop, 2019, Journal of Applied Communication Research on p. 571-590

Most-Cited Papers

Antibiotic resistance: a primer and call to action

Rachel A. Smith, Nkuchia M. M’ikanatha, Andrew F. Read, 2015, Health Communication on p. 309-314

Surveillance considerations for malaria elimination

Victoria C. Barclay, Rachel A. Smith, Jill L. Findeis, 2012, Malaria Journal

Defining genes using “blueprint” versus “instruction” metaphors: Effects for genetic determinism, response efficacy, and perceived control

Roxanne Parrott, Rachel Annette Smith, 2014, Health Communication on p. 137-146

An Experimental Test of Stigma Communication Content with a Hypothetical Infectious Disease Alert

Rachel Annette Smith, 2012, Communication Monographs on p. 522-538

Infectious Disease Stigmas: Maladaptive in Modern Society

Rachel A. Smith, David Hughes, 2014, Communication Studies on p. 132-138

Evaluating the impact of screening plus eave tubes on malaria transmission compared to current best practice in central Côte d'Ivoire

Eleanore Delaveleye Sternberg, Jackie Cook, Ludovic P. Ahoua Alou, Carine J. Aoura, Serge Brice Assi, Dimi Théodore Doudou, A. Alphonsine Koffi, Raphael N'Guessan, Welbeck A. Oumbouke, Rachel Annette Smith, Eve Worrall, Immo Kleinschmidt, Matthew Brian Thomas, 2018, BMC Public Health

Preparing for Antibiotic Resistance Campaigns

Rachel A. Smith, Madisen Quesnell, Lydia Glick, Nicole Hackman, Nkuchia M. M'Ikanatha, 2015, Journal of Health Communication on p. 1433-1440

Segmenting an Audience into the Own, the Wise, and Normals

Rachel A. Smith, 2012, Communication Research Reports on p. 257-265

Testing the Model of Stigma Communication with a Factorial Experiment in an Interpersonal Context

Rachel A. Smith, 2014, Communication Studies on p. 154-173

Living with a rare health condition

Xun Zhu, Rachel Annette Smith, Roxanne L. Parrott, 2017, Journal of Applied Communication Research on p. 179-198