Erika Waters, PhD, MPH
- Email: waterse@wustl.edu
Professor
Division of Public Health Sciences
Department of Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
Email: waterse@wustl.edu
Education
BS, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1999
MS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2003
PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006
MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 2009
Research Interests
My program of health communication, risk communication, and behavior change research translates foundational epidemiological, clinical, and genomic science into forms that help laypeople make adaptive health decisions. The interventions that result from this work are designed to maximize the potential for future dissemination and implementation and reduce health disparities. One branch of my research explores the rich variety of cognitive, emotional, and socio-contextual factors that shape whether, when, and how people make decisions about engaging in healthy behaviors. A second branch applies lessons-learned from earlier-phase research to develop traditional, eHealth, and mHealth communication and behavioral interventions that aim to increase engagement in health protective behaviors and reduce engagement in health damaging behaviors. I have a strong interest in research that seeks to understand and meet the needs of populations that have been marginalized or underrepresented in research, including people of color and people with limited education, health literacy, and numeracy.
Julia Maki, PhD
Supervisor, Public Health Research Coordinator
- Phone: (314)286-2835
- Email: jmaki@wustl.edu
Supervisor of Public Health Research
Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery
