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2631 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97330

https://health.oregonstate.edu/seminars/2023-02-03
Free Event

Recent research that has examined the influence of television on health promotion and behavior and the use of "edutainment" for teaching health sciences students. “Edutainment” is a combination of entertainment with education. The goal is to instruct the audience by embedding lessons in various forms of entertainment such as computer and video games, television programs, or multimedia software. Presenter Beth Hoffman, PhD, MPH will provide recommendations for leveraging media to improve population health.

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Speaker

Beth Hoffman, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Associate
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health

Hoffman uses system science methods to analyze social media data related to health topics such as vaping and vaccination. She earned a BSc in Human Biology from Brown University and an MPH at Pitt Public Health. Her master's thesis, which used quantitative, qualitative, and social network analyses to examine anti-vaccine sentiment on Facebook, formed the basis for a first-author publication that was featured by multiple media outlets including CNN, Newsweek, and NBC's WPXI. Hoffman has also served as a research assistant on numerous projects related to media and health at Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology, and Health.

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