Wright selected for NCA’s Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award
Professor and Director of Communication Science Paul Wright has been selected to receive the National Communication Association’s Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award. The award honors a career of innovative and substantive health communication research meeting the following criteria:
- A significant and long-lasting effect on the field of health communication
- Strong heuristic value
- Influence over others’ work
- Originality regarding theory and research
- Contribution to the development of health communication as a distinct field of study
Prior recipients of the Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award include Sandi Smith, Distinguished Professor of Communication at Michigan State University; Michael Slater, Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Ohio State University; Roxanne Parrott, Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University; Seth Noar, Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina; and the late Everett Rogers, Distinguished Professor of Communication at University of New Mexico.
Other career-spanning achievement awards received by Wright include the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Media Psychology and Technology Award and the International Communication Association’s Innovation in Mass Communication Theory Award.
Wright is a fellow of the International Communication Association (for distinguished contributions to the broad field of communication) and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (for sustained and outstanding distinguished contributions to psychological science). He joined Indiana University’s Faculty in 2011.