Anna Gaysynsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6071074 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Gaysynsky |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Gaysynsky |
| FIRMA | GAYSYNSKY A |
| AFILIACIONES | National Cancer Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5612-5572 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Patient–Provider Discussions About Online Health Information in the Health Information National Trends Survey
Online health information-seeking is common and can impact patient–provider interactions. Using Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data from 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2024 ( n = 20,292), this study assessed trends in the percentage of Americans who reported discussing online health information with health care providers in the past year. Next, 2024 HINTS data ( n = 6,350) assessed perceptions of provider openness, provider respectfulne…
An Analysis of Grants Focused on Health Disparities Held by the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, 2010–2024
Health communication can both reinforce and reduce adverse differences in cancer outcomes between groups. However, characteristics of cancer communication research aiming to reduce these health disparities have not been systematically assessed. Awarded research project grants in the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (NCI-HCIRB) portfolio (2010–2024; n = 159) were coded to identify disparities focus a…
Portrayal of Cancer Patients in the Era of AI
This study sought to characterize images of cancer patients generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) text-to-image tools, and assess whether images differed by cancer type or AI tool, to elucidate the potential implications of using AI-generated images in health communication. Two generative AI-based tools, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, were prompted to produce images of a “cancer patient,” “breast cancer patient,” “lung cancer patient,” and “pro…
Advancing rural cancer control
PURPOSE: Given well-documented rural-urban disparities in cancer outcomes, we conducted a portfolio analysis to characterize rural cancer control-focused grants funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) between fiscal years 2016 and 2024 and to identify opportunities for future research. METHODS: ISearch, an NIH portfolio analysis tool, was used to identify rural-focused cancer control research grants funded by NCI. 128 grants were analyzed f…
Critical Considerations for Using Cultural Targeting and Tailoring in Health Communication Interventions
One approach to addressing observed health disparities that is frequently discussed in the literature is adapting health messages to the cultural identities of groups who experience an undue burden of disease. The extant research on the cultural tailoring and targeting (CTT) of health messages generally indicates that such adaptations are effective. However, the empirical basis for this conclusion does not provide definitive evidence that CTT is …
Mitigating Health and Science Misinformation
Literature on how to address misinformation has rapidly expanded in recent years. The aim of this scoping review was to synthesize the growing published literature on health and science misinformation mitigation interventions. English-language articles published from January 2017 to July 2022 were included. After title/abstract screening, 115 publications (148 empirical studies) met inclusion criteria and were coded for sample characteristics, to…
Public Health Communication Approaches for Building Common Ground
Changes in the information landscape and increasing polarization in society over recent decades have made it more difficult to establish common ground, which poses a profound challenge to effective health communication and public health in general. We highlight the importance of assessing health communication approaches for their potential to bring people together and reduce polarization. We outline several communication approaches that use exist…
Contributions to Research and Practice Made by the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch
The Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the U.S. National Cancer Institute was founded in 1999 in response to increasing evidence demonstrating a link between effective health communication and improved cancer-related outcomes and in recognition of the rapid and dramatic technological changes that were transforming health communication at the turn of the 21st century. For the past 25 years, the Health Communication and Informa…
Missing the Bigger Picture
Research shows that health misinformation is widespread online and poses a potentially significant threat to public health. Visual misinformation has been largely overlooked, a notable gap given the unique features and ubiquity of visual content. In this essay, we (a) provide a working definition of visual misinformation, (b) summarize the main categories of visual misinformation, (c) offer examples of the functions visuals can serve within misin…
The Covid-19 Misinfodemic
Online misinformation regarding COVID-19 has undermined public health efforts to control the novel coronavirus. To date, public health organizations’ efforts to counter COVID-19 misinformation have focused on identifying and correcting false information on social media platforms. Citing extant literature in health communication and psychology, we argue that these fact-checking efforts are a necessary, but insufficient, response to health misinfor…
Qué camino tomar
Traducción oficial al español del artículo original en inglés efectuada por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. En caso de discrepancia, prevalecerá la versión original en inglés. Acceso al artículo original: Am J Public Health. 2020;110(Suppl 3):S284–S285. Doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305905
Aprovechar la pandemia como una oportunidad para promover los conocimientos sobre las vacunas y la resiliencia frente a la información errónea
Traducción oficial al español del artículo original en inglés efectuada por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. En caso de discrepancia, prevalecerá la versión original en inglés. Acceso al artículo original: Am J Public Health. 2020;110(Suppl 3):S284–S285. doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305906
Racism and Xenophobia in a Pandemic
History suggests that disease outbreaks have often been accompanied by a rise in xenophobic or racist sentiment 1,2 Such attempts at othering reflect misguided efforts to assign social meaning and responsibility to disease, even though illnesses do not recognize socially constructed categories such as race 3 Although systems exist to closely monitor and report on COVID-19 infection and death rates, we currently lack the capacity to monitor racism…
Using a Global Pandemic as a Teachable Moment to Promote Vaccine Literacy and Build Resilience to Misinformation
Vaccination against infectious disease has been recognized as one of the Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th century, given the substantial impact immunizations have had globally across a range of diseases, including polio, influenza, pneumonia, measles, mumps, rubella, viral hepatitis, pertussis, and oncogenic human papillomarvirus 1 Populationlevel vaccination programs have resulted in significant declines of new cases of diseas…
A Prologue to the Special Issue
Where We Go From Here
Misinformation as a Misunderstood Challenge to Public Health
My YAP Family”
Racism and Xenophobia in a Pandemic
History suggests that disease outbreaks have often been accompanied by a rise in xenophobic or racist sentiment 1,2 Such attempts at othering reflect misguided efforts to assign social meaning and responsibility to disease, even though illnesses do not recognize socially constructed categories such as race 3 Although systems exist to closely monitor and report on COVID-19 infection and death rates, we currently lack the capacity to monitor racism…
Where We Go From Here
Missing the Bigger Picture
Research shows that health misinformation is widespread online and poses a potentially significant threat to public health. Visual misinformation has been largely overlooked, a notable gap given the unique features and ubiquity of visual content. In this essay, we (a) provide a working definition of visual misinformation, (b) summarize the main categories of visual misinformation, (c) offer examples of the functions visuals can serve within misin…
My YAP Family”
Misinformation as a Misunderstood Challenge to Public Health
Using a Global Pandemic as a Teachable Moment to Promote Vaccine Literacy and Build Resilience to Misinformation
Vaccination against infectious disease has been recognized as one of the Ten Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th century, given the substantial impact immunizations have had globally across a range of diseases, including polio, influenza, pneumonia, measles, mumps, rubella, viral hepatitis, pertussis, and oncogenic human papillomarvirus 1 Populationlevel vaccination programs have resulted in significant declines of new cases of diseas…
A Prologue to the Special Issue
Where We Go From Here
The Covid-19 Misinfodemic
Online misinformation regarding COVID-19 has undermined public health efforts to control the novel coronavirus. To date, public health organizations’ efforts to counter COVID-19 misinformation have focused on identifying and correcting false information on social media platforms. Citing extant literature in health communication and psychology, we argue that these fact-checking efforts are a necessary, but insufficient, response to health misinfor…
Qué camino tomar
Traducción oficial al español del artículo original en inglés efectuada por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. En caso de discrepancia, prevalecerá la versión original en inglés. Acceso al artículo original: Am J Public Health. 2020;110(Suppl 3):S284–S285. Doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305905
Aprovechar la pandemia como una oportunidad para promover los conocimientos sobre las vacunas y la resiliencia frente a la información errónea
Traducción oficial al español del artículo original en inglés efectuada por la Organización Panamericana de la Salud. En caso de discrepancia, prevalecerá la versión original en inglés. Acceso al artículo original: Am J Public Health. 2020;110(Suppl 3):S284–S285. doi: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305906
Racism and Xenophobia in a Pandemic
History suggests that disease outbreaks have often been accompanied by a rise in xenophobic or racist sentiment 1,2 Such attempts at othering reflect misguided efforts to assign social meaning and responsibility to disease, even though illnesses do not recognize socially constructed categories such as race 3 Although systems exist to closely monitor and report on COVID-19 infection and death rates, we currently lack the capacity to monitor racism…
Missing the Bigger Picture
Research shows that health misinformation is widespread online and poses a potentially significant threat to public health. Visual misinformation has been largely overlooked, a notable gap given the unique features and ubiquity of visual content. In this essay, we (a) provide a working definition of visual misinformation, (b) summarize the main categories of visual misinformation, (c) offer examples of the functions visuals can serve within misin…
Contributions to Research and Practice Made by the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch
The Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at the U.S. National Cancer Institute was founded in 1999 in response to increasing evidence demonstrating a link between effective health communication and improved cancer-related outcomes and in recognition of the rapid and dramatic technological changes that were transforming health communication at the turn of the 21st century. For the past 25 years, the Health Communication and Informa…
Critical Considerations for Using Cultural Targeting and Tailoring in Health Communication Interventions
One approach to addressing observed health disparities that is frequently discussed in the literature is adapting health messages to the cultural identities of groups who experience an undue burden of disease. The extant research on the cultural tailoring and targeting (CTT) of health messages generally indicates that such adaptations are effective. However, the empirical basis for this conclusion does not provide definitive evidence that CTT is …
Mitigating Health and Science Misinformation
Literature on how to address misinformation has rapidly expanded in recent years. The aim of this scoping review was to synthesize the growing published literature on health and science misinformation mitigation interventions. English-language articles published from January 2017 to July 2022 were included. After title/abstract screening, 115 publications (148 empirical studies) met inclusion criteria and were coded for sample characteristics, to…
Public Health Communication Approaches for Building Common Ground
Changes in the information landscape and increasing polarization in society over recent decades have made it more difficult to establish common ground, which poses a profound challenge to effective health communication and public health in general. We highlight the importance of assessing health communication approaches for their potential to bring people together and reduce polarization. We outline several communication approaches that use exist…
Patient–Provider Discussions About Online Health Information in the Health Information National Trends Survey
Online health information-seeking is common and can impact patient–provider interactions. Using Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) data from 2005, 2008, 2011, and 2024 ( n = 20,292), this study assessed trends in the percentage of Americans who reported discussing online health information with health care providers in the past year. Next, 2024 HINTS data ( n = 6,350) assessed perceptions of provider openness, provider respectfulne…
An Analysis of Grants Focused on Health Disparities Held by the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, 2010–2024
Health communication can both reinforce and reduce adverse differences in cancer outcomes between groups. However, characteristics of cancer communication research aiming to reduce these health disparities have not been systematically assessed. Awarded research project grants in the National Cancer Institute’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (NCI-HCIRB) portfolio (2010–2024; n = 159) were coded to identify disparities focus a…
Portrayal of Cancer Patients in the Era of AI
This study sought to characterize images of cancer patients generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) text-to-image tools, and assess whether images differed by cancer type or AI tool, to elucidate the potential implications of using AI-generated images in health communication. Two generative AI-based tools, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, were prompted to produce images of a “cancer patient,” “breast cancer patient,” “lung cancer patient,” and “pro…
Advancing rural cancer control
PURPOSE: Given well-documented rural-urban disparities in cancer outcomes, we conducted a portfolio analysis to characterize rural cancer control-focused grants funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) between fiscal years 2016 and 2024 and to identify opportunities for future research. METHODS: ISearch, an NIH portfolio analysis tool, was used to identify rural-focused cancer control research grants funded by NCI. 128 grants were analyzed f…
Medicine (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (9 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (7 obras) · Environmental health (5 obras) · Misinformation (5 obras) · Social Media in Health Education (5 obras)