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Overview

Sarah E. Gollust is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions, with an emphasis on General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science as noted subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, Misinformation and Its Impacts, Media Influence and Health, Healthcare Policy and Management, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Global Cancer Incidence and Screening, and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, Milbank Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, JAMA Network Open, and the American Journal of Public Health.

Some of Sarah E. Gollust's recent papers include:

  • The Emergence of COVID-19 in the US: A Public Health and Political Communication Crisis, 2020, Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law
  • Public perceptions of conflicting information surrounding COVID-19: Results from a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • College roommates have a modest but significant influence on each other's political ideology, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Effects of Prior Exposure to Conflicting Health Information on Responses to Subsequent Unrelated Health Messages: Results from a Population-Based Longitudinal Experiment, 2021, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Americans' perceptions of disparities in COVID-19 mortality: Results from a nationally-representative survey, 2020, Preventive Medicine

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Erika Franklin Fowler
  • Rebekah H. Nagler
  • Jeff Niederdeppe
  • Laura Baum
  • Margaret Tait

Best Publications

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality Among University Students

    Daniel Eisenberg;Sarah E. Gollust;Ezra Golberstein;Jennifer L. Hefner

  • Help-seeking and access to mental health care in a university student population.

    Daniel Eisenberg;Ezra Golberstein;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Persistence of mental health problems and needs in a college student population.

    Kara Zivin;Daniel Eisenberg;Sarah E. Gollust;Ezra Golberstein

  • Perceived Stigma and Mental Health Care Seeking

    B.A. Ezra Golberstein;Daniel Eisenberg;B.A. Sarah E. Gollust

  • Prevalence and Correlates of Self-Injury among University Students.

    Sarah Elizabeth Gollust;Daniel Eisenberg;Ezra Golberstein

  • Social Stigma Toward Persons With Prescription Opioid Use Disorder: Associations With Public Support for Punitive and Public Health–Oriented Policies

    Alene Kennedy-Hendricks;Colleen L. Barry;Sarah E. Gollust;Margaret E. Ensminger

  • The Polarizing Effect of News Media Messages About the Social Determinants of Health

    Sarah E. Gollust;Paula M. Lantz;Peter A. Ubel

  • The Emergence of COVID-19 in the US: A Public Health and Political Communication Crisis.

    Sarah E. Gollust;Rebekah H. Nagler;Erika Franklin Fowler

  • Limitations of direct-to-consumer advertising for clinical genetic testing.

    Sarah E. Gollust;Sara Chandros Hull;Benjamin S. Wilfond

  • Motivations and Perceptions of Early Adopters of Personalized Genomics: Perspectives from Research Participants

    S.E. Gollust;E.S. Gordon;C. Zayac;G. Griffin

  • Framing the consequences of childhood obesity to increase public support for obesity prevention policy

    Sarah E. Gollust;Jeff Niederdeppe;Colleen L. Barry

  • Perceived Stigma and Mental Health Care Seeking

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  • Direct-to-consumer sales of genetic services on the Internet

    Sarah E. Gollust;Benjamin S. Wilfond;Sara Chandros Hull

  • Communicating population health: print news media coverage of type 2 diabetes.

    Sarah E. Gollust;Paula M. Lantz

  • Primary care physicians’ perspectives on the prescription opioid epidemic

    Alene Kennedy-Hendricks;Susan H. Busch;Emma Elizabeth McGinty;Marcus A. Bachhuber

  • Turner syndrome: four challenges across the lifespan

    Erica J Sutton;Aideen McInerney-Leo;Carolyn A Bondy;Sarah E Gollust

  • Living with achondroplasia in an average-sized world: An assessment of quality of life

    Sarah E. Gollust;Richard E. Thompson;Holly C. Gooding;Barbara B. Biesecker

  • News Media Framing of Childhood Obesity in the United States From 2000 to 2009

    Colleen L. Barry;Marian Jarlenski;Rachel Grob;Mark Schlesinger

  • Perceived Stigma and Help-Seeking Behavior: Longitudinal Evidence From the Healthy Minds Study

    Ezra Golberstein;Daniel Eisenberg;Sarah E. Gollust

  • The Content and Effect of Politicized Health Controversies

    Erika Franklin Fowler;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Strategic Messaging to Promote Taxation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: Lessons From Recent Political Campaigns

    Judy Jou;Jeff Niederdeppe;Colleen L. Barry;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Framing Childhood Obesity: How Individualizing the Problem Affects Public Support for Prevention

    Colleen L. Barry;Victoria L. Brescoll;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Americans' opinions about policies to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages.

    Sarah E. Gollust;Colleen L. Barry;Jeff Niederdeppe

  • Criminal Activity or Treatable Health Condition? News Media Framing of Opioid Analgesic Abuse in the United States, 1998-2012

    Emma E. McGinty;Alene Kennedy-Hendricks;Julia Baller;Jeff Niederdeppe

  • Looking Ahead: Addressing Ethical Challenges in Public Health Practice

    Nancy M. Baum;Sarah Elizabeth Gollust;Susan Dorr Goold;Peter D. Jacobson

  • Playing fair: fairness beliefs and health policy preferences in the United States.

    Julia Lynch;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Communication About Health Disparities in the Mass Media

    Jeff Niederdeppe;Cabral A. Bigman;Amy L. Gonzales;Sarah E. Gollust

  • Truth-telling and Turner Syndrome: the importance of diagnostic disclosure.

    Erica J. Sutton;Jessica Young;Aideen McInerney-Leo;Carolyn A. Bondy

Frequent Co-Authors

Erika Franklin Fowler
Erika Franklin Fowler Wesleyan University
Colleen L. Barry
Colleen L. Barry Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Niederdeppe
Jeff Niederdeppe Cornell University
David Grande
David Grande University of Pennsylvania
Emma E. McGinty
Emma E. McGinty Cornell University
Barbara B. Biesecker
Barbara B. Biesecker RTI International
Diana J. Burgess
Diana J. Burgess United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer University of Minnesota

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