David Scales

Biographic Data

ID1939004
NAMEDavid Scales
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEScales
SIGNATURESCALES D
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0001-5727-7148
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Trust is a verb

    Open AccessTina D Purnat, Elisabeth Wilhelm et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2026

    Trust in health, science, and public institutions has become a central concern in many countries (O’Doherty 2023, 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer 2025, Cologna et al. 2025, Larson and Bersoff 2025, Moran et al. 2025, Perlo and Cerise 2025, The Economist 2025, Younger-Khan 2025, Zhang et al. 2025). For decades, we treated trust like a bank account, like something institutions could deposit into, that it grows untouched and withdraw from at will. But …

  • Health promotion in the algorithmic age

    Open AccessTina D Purnat, Elisabeth Wilhelm et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2025

  • Reimagining the Role of Communication in Medical Consensus to Address Medical Mistrust and Disinformation

    Open AccessJ M Ezell, David Scales et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2025References: 4

    Medical consensus is a critical element in deriving and substantiating evidence-based approaches to guide patient communication and care delivery. However, in recent years, mistrust in medicine—and in science more broadly—has deepened, driven in part by the recent politicization of public health guidance and the spread of disinformation, as well as by historically siloed and opaque public engagement practices. There has been limited critical anal…

  • Empowering Patients to Make Goal-Aligned Decisions in Unhealthy Information Environments

    Laura J Faherty, David Scales et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2025References: 15

  • Advocating for a community-centred model for responding to potential information harms

    Open AccessClaire Wardle, David ScalesARTICLENature Human Behaviour2025References: 81

  • Community-oriented Motivational Interviewing (MI)

    Open AccessDavid Scales, Joshua M Gorman et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2023

    Researchers have linked circulating misinformation in online platforms to low COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Two disparate literatures provide relevant initial guidance to address the problem. Motivational Interviewing (MI) effectively reduces vaccine hesitancy in clinical environments; meanwhile, social scientists note inoculation, rebuttal, and appeals to accuracy are persuasive in digital contexts. A tension is inherent in these approaches. MI in di…

  • Correlates of Mpox Vaccination among Sexual Minority Men in the United States

    Tyrel J Starks, David Scales et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2023Cited by: 3References: 3

    Sexual minority men (SMM) have accounted for the majority of infections during the 2022 outbreak of the orthopox virus known as mpox (previously "monkeypox") in the US. This study examined correlates of mpox vaccination. Between July 28 and September 22, 2022, adult cisgender SMM ( n = 2,620) not previously diagnosed with mpox responded to recruitment advertisements on social networking applications and completed an online survey. Of these, 730 (…

  • Implications of Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

    Open AccessJoshua M Gorman, Jack M Gorman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Reluctance to accept vaccination against COVID-19 poses a significant public health risk and is known to be a multi-determined phenomenon. We conducted online focus groups, or “bulletin boards,” in order to probe the nature of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its implications. Participants were 94 individuals from three distinct U.S. geographical areas and represented a range of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Six themes emerged from…

  • Syrian refugees, between rocky crisis in Syria and hard inaccessibility to healthcare services in Lebanon and Jordan

    Open AccessZiad El‐Khatib, David Scales et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2013

    Around 3% of the world's population (n = 214 million people) has crossed international borders for various reasons. Since March 2011, Syria has been going through state of political crisis and instability resulting in an exodus of Syrians to neighbouring countries. More than 1 million Syrian refugees are residents of Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Egypt and North Africa. The international community must step up efforts to support Syrian refugees and th…

  • Closing the access gap for health innovations

    Open AccessSamantha Chaifetz, Dave A Chokshi et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2007

    BACKGROUND: This article centers around a proposal outlining how research universities could leverage their intellectual property to help close the access gap for health innovations in poor countries. A recent deal between Emory University, Gilead Sciences, and Royalty Pharma is used as an example to illustrate how 'equitable access licensing' could be put into practice. DISCUSSION: While the crisis of access to medicines in poor countries has mu…