For more than two decades, Charlene Caburnay has designed, developed and evaluated health communication programs at the Health Communication Research Laboratory. Such programs address a range of health issues such as cancer, diabetes, childhood immunization, and chronic disease for target populations including smokers, families at inner-city public health centers, and readers of Black newspapers. Her broad research experience and interests include technology-based communication programs, health media interventions, health and cancer communication, childhood immunization, and community-level chronic disease interventions. Her research seeks to understand how best to enrich the information environment in communities bearing a disproportionate burden of disease or poverty, and how to accelerate the dissemination of evidence-based, communication-based interventions into channels and systems serving disadvantaged minority populations. As a result, she has much experience in the recruitment of research participants from diverse populations. Caburnay frequently works with graduate and undergraduate research assistants on her project teams, along with a staff that includes a research manager, programmer, writer and graphic designer. Charlene Caburnay Research Assistant Professor PhD, Saint Louis University School of Public Health Office Phone: 314-935-3703 Email: ccaburnay@wustl.edu Download CV Areas of Focus: Technology-based communication programs Health media analysis and interventions Health and cancer communications Community-level chronic disease interventions In The News As COVID Surged, Health Communication Research Laboratory Broke New Ground in Rapid Research July 25, 2022 Brown School Presentations at APHA 2021 October 25, 2021 HCRL Awarded Two Grants to Address Covid-19 Disparities December 7, 2020