Janice Krieger, Ph.D.

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SUMMARY

Janice Krieger, Ph.D., is a communication scientist with expertise in developing, implementing and evaluating culturally aware interventions that use precision messaging techniques to improve healthcare for everyone. Her research investigates how to apply novel technologies across the cancer continuum to address the prevention and survivorship needs of patients, families and communities.

Focus areas

• Linguistic and cultural awareness in health interventions. Dr. Krieger empirically examines the associations among linguistic and cultural awareness of health communication and health outcomes in patient, family and community contexts.
• User-centered technology solutions for precision messaging. Dr. Krieger studies how customizing health information improves cognitive processing of information and influences individual behavioral outcomes. Her recent work examines the opportunities and challenges of using virtual community health workers to address a variety of cultural, linguistic, health literacy and geographic backgrounds.
• Community-based participatory research. Dr. Krieger's research uses community-based participatory research principles to describe and predict how social influence principles can be applied. This includes enhancing culturally aware participant recruitment to research studies, disseminating study findings and implementing evidence-based interventions.
• Translational communication and cultural awareness. Dr. Krieger evaluates messages in a variety of communication environments. She seeks increased availability of culturally aware resources in various healthcare contexts.

Significance to patient care

Dr. Krieger wants to make health information easier for patients, families and community members to understand. Her research helps make this information clear, simple and respectful for all people, regardless of their backgrounds. She also helps healthcare workers explain medical information in everyday language.

Professional highlights

• Mayo Clinic:
  • Associate director, Community Outreach and Engagement, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Florida, 2023-present.
  • Leader, Cancer Prevention, Control and Survivorship Research Program, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2024-2026.
• Fellow, International Communication Association, 2023-present.
• Invention of the Year, University of Florida, 2021.
• Technology Award, Society for Public Health Education, 2020.
• Best Paper Award, 19th Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2019.
• Preeminence Term Professorship, University of Florida Foundation, 2016.
• Article of the Year Award, Communication Science, Health, Environment and Risk Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2014.