Janice Krieger Editor

​Professor Bernadette Watson is a health psychologist and Director of the International Research Centre for the Advancement of Health Communication at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the influence of identity and intergroup processes, both on patient-health professional communication, and on communication in multi-disciplinary and multicultural health teams. Professor Watson has been an executive member of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) and served as President from 2012 to 2014. She is a Fellow of both the IALSP and the Academy of the Humanities, Hong Kong.
Professor Janice Krieger is a health communication scholar and Director of the STEM Translational Communication Program at the University of Florida. Professor Krieger’s research focuses on translational communication in health and risk decision-making contexts. In particular, she is studying how message design influences health literacy and the cognitive processing of health risk messages. Professor Krieger was an executive member of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP).