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Kasisomayajula Viswanath

Kasisomayajula Viswanath

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
74
Citations
34915
World Ranking
568
National Ranking
270

Overview

Kasisomayajula Viswanath is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, medicine, and health professions with a particular focus on general health professions, sociology and political science, health, epidemiology, and physiology.

The scientist's work predominantly addresses themes such as mobile health and mHealth applications, smoking behavior and cessation, misinformation and its impacts, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, the impact of technology on adolescents, digital mental health interventions, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Recent publications by Viswanath include:

  • Individual and social determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake, 2021, BMC Public Health
  • We Need the Lens of Equity in COVID-19 Communication, 2020, Health Communication

Viswanath frequently publishes in several academic journals, with notable publication volumes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research (8 publications)
  • BMC Public Health (4 publications)
  • Health Communication (4 publications)
  • PEDIATRICS (4 publications)
  • European Urology (4 publications)

Collaboration is a significant component of Viswanath's scholarly work. Frequent co-authors include Mesfin Awoke Bekalu, Rachel McCloud, Victoria Sánchez Antelo, Silvina Arrossi, and Dhriti Dhawan.

Viswanath's research contributions cover diverse topics related to health communication and public health behaviors, with a focus on understanding and addressing factors influencing vaccine hesitancy and uptake. This includes studies on social and individual determinants as well as equity perspectives in health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Health behavior and health education : theory, research, and practice

    Karen Glanz;Barbara K. Rimer;K. Viswanath

  • Trust and sources of health information: the impact of the Internet and its implications for health care providers: findings from the first Health Information National Trends Survey.

    Bradford W. Hesse;David E. Nelson;Gary L. Kreps;Robert T. Croyle

  • Health behavior : theory, research, and practice

    Karen Glanz;Barbara K. Rimer;K. Viswanath

  • Lessons Learned from Public Health Mass Media Campaigns: Marketing Health in a Crowded Media World*

    Whitney Randolph;K. Viswanath

  • The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis: Twenty-Five Years Later

    K. Viswanath;John R. Finnegan

  • Individual and social determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

    K. Viswanath;Mesfin Bekalu;Dhriti Dhawan;Ramya Pinnamaneni

  • Cancer knowledge and disparities in the information age.

    K Viswanath;Nancy Breen;Helen Meissner;Richard P Moser

  • Racial Disparities in the Outcomes of Communication on Medical Care Received Near Death

    Jennifer W. Mack;M. Elizabeth Paulk;Kasisomayajula Viswanath;Holly G. Prigerson

  • The communications revolution and cancer control

    K. Viswanath

  • Health and the Information Nonseeker: A Profile

    Shoba Ramanadhan;K. Viswanath

  • Health Disparities, Communication Inequalities, and eHealth

    K. Viswanath;Matthew W. Kreuter

  • Understanding Concussion Reporting Using a Model Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior

    Emily Kroshus;Christine M. Baugh;Daniel H. Daneshvar;Kasisomayajula Viswanath

  • Frustrated and confused: The American public rates its cancer-related information-seeking experiences

    Neeraj K. Arora;Bradford W. Hesse;Barbara K. Rimer;K. Viswanath

  • The intersectionality of discrimination attributes and bullying among youth: an applied latent class analysis.

    Bernice Raveche Garnett;Katherine E. Masyn;S. Bryn Austin;Matthew C. Miller

  • Association of Social Media Use With Social Well-Being, Positive Mental Health, and Self-Rated Health: Disentangling Routine Use From Emotional Connection to Use

    Mesfin A. Bekalu;Rachel F. McCloud;K. Viswanath

  • What have we learned about communication inequalities during the H1N1 pandemic: a systematic review of the literature.

    Leesa Lin;Elena Savoia;Foluso Agboola;Kasisomayajula Viswanath

  • Translating research evidence into practice to reduce health disparities: a social determinants approach.

    Howard K. Koh;Sarah C. Oppenheimer;Sarah B. Massin-Short;Karen M. Emmons

  • Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: A Policy Statement From the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology

    Thomas H. Brandon;Maciej L. Goniewicz;Nasser H. Hanna;Dorothy K. Hatsukami

  • Providing health messages to Hispanics/Latinos: understanding the importance of language, trust in health information sources, and media use.

    Marla L. Clayman;Jennifer A. Manganello;K. Viswanath;Bradford W. Hesse

  • Communication Inequalities and Public Health Implications of Adult Social Networking Site Use in the United States

    Emily Z. Kontos;Karen M. Emmons;Elaine Puleo;K. Viswanath

  • Mass media, social control, and social change : a macrosocial perspective

    David P. Demers;K. Viswanath

  • The Impact of the Internet and Its Implications for Health Care Providers: Findings From the First Health Information National Trends Survey

    Bradford W. Hesse;David E. Nelson;Gary L. Kreps;Robert T. Croyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Glorian Sorensen
Glorian Sorensen Harvard University
Bradford W. Hesse
Bradford W. Hesse National Institutes of Health
Gary G. Bennett
Gary G. Bennett Duke University
Holly G. Prigerson
Holly G. Prigerson Cornell University
Ruth Lynfield
Ruth Lynfield Minnesota Department of Health
Thomas H. Brandon
Thomas H. Brandon University of South Florida
Gary L. Kreps
Gary L. Kreps George Mason University
Donna Vallone
Donna Vallone Johns Hopkins University
Robert J. Blendon
Robert J. Blendon Harvard University
Ellen R. Gritz
Ellen R. Gritz The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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