The Risk Comm Lab has wrapped up the 2025-2026 school year! We are so thankful and proud of all of our lab members, and are especially sad to see so many graduate! Best of luck to all of the graduating members, we can't wait to see where you go!

RCL's previous research coordinator, Patrick Kelly was part of @TempleCPH's National Public Health Week Panel Thank you for participating in such an important conversation about the future of public health. We are so proud of you & it has been an honor to work together!

A huge thank you to the @AACR for inviting our lab director, Dr. Sarah Bauerle Bass, to speak at the 2026 Annual Meeting.

Former lab member, Caseem Luck, first authored this paper alongside Dr. Heather Gardiner! This paper was the formative work for the Boost Your Shot study that our lab director, Dr. Sarah Bauerle Bass was PI of. Read Here: mdpi.com/1660-4601/23/3/327

Congratulations to our former lab member and doctoral student, Kirsten Paulus! She is currently a Health Data Analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Congratulations to our former lab member and doctoral student, Ariel Hoadley! She is currently an assistant research professor at UMass Chan Medical School in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences.

Our lab director Dr. Sarah Bass first authored this paper with Eastern Carolina University and RCL! The paper was released in the AIDS Care Journal. Read Here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Check out this paper by Dr. Leah Schumacher, a part of our Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences! The paper was released by the American Diabetes Association. Read Here: doi.org/10.2337/dci25-0094

One of our lab's doctoral students, Scout Silverstein, authored a portion of "Handbook of Diversity in Body Image". The book is expected to be released on March 9th, and was edited by Viren Swami and Tracy L. Tylka.

One of our doctoral students, Scout Silverstein, authored a paper published in the @SOPHEtweets. The paper, Prevention and Early Detection of Eating Disorders in Trans-Affirming Primary Care: Two Vignettes of Transgender Patients, can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

The Risk Comm Lab has wrapped up another wonderful semester! We are so thankful and proud of all of our lab members and can't wait to see what we can get up to next semester!

One of our doctoral students, Scout Silverstein, authored a paper published in the BMC Journal of Eating Disorders. The paper, Why reflexivity matters in the literature of suffering, death, and dying in eating disorders, can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10…

We want to shout out one of our lovely Graduate Research Assistant, Matt Dewhurst, for receiving the College-Based Leadership Award from @APHA ATOD Section! He was recognized for his leadership and innovation in campus activities to reduce harm from substance use on campus.

The Risk Communication Lab is going to represent at the 2025 APHA Annual Meeting & Expo. With 4 posters, 1 roundtable, and 1 oral presentation it's going to be a great time!

Our lab director, Dr. Sarah Bass, was one of 4 faculty and staff recognized at the Temple vs. UTSA football game for her contributions to the community and public health. Thank you to the Senior Associate Dean, David Sarwar, for the shout out!

Dr. Bass and Scout Silverstein are co-authors on a new paper! The development of gender- and sex-diverse standardized patients for interprofessional learning: a community-based participatory approach, can be found here: bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com…

Our lab director, Dr. Sarah Bass, was a co-author on a new paper with Omar Martinez. The paper can be found using this link: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Our lab director, Dr. Sarah Bass, was a co-investigator for new research funded by the American Diabetes Association. Socio-Clinical Correlations With Threat Perception and Self-Efficacy in People With Type 2 Diabetes, can be found using the link: doi.org/10.2337/ds24-0044

Shout out to former RCL Research Assistant, Anyun Chatterjee! We are so excited for him to get his PhD in Communications here at Temple University, and can't wait for what he does in the future! Read About Him Here: grad.temple.edu/academics/st…

Shout out to former RCL Research Assistant and PhD student, Paul D'Avanzo! We are so excited for his academic appointment at Rutgers School of Public Health, and can't wait for what he does in the future! Read About Him Here: sph.rutgers.edu/news/paul-da…