1 9 CONTACT DETAILS Address (work) Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano Phone (work) (+41) 58 666 4486 E-mail (work) anne.linda.camerini@usi.ch RESEARCH INTERESTS Health communication, health literacy, media and child well-being, ehealth, quantitative research methods ACQUIRED TITLES 01/2013 Ph.D. in Communication Sciences (Health Communication) 06/2006 M.A. in Media Studies, Intercultural Business Communication, English, Italian ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 02/2013 now Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Communication and Health EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 10/2009 01/2013 Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Communication and Health Dissertation title Board Degree obtained on 18 June 2013 Health Literacy: Advancing Research on the Concept, its Measurement and in Health Communication Swiss National Science Foundation Prof. P.J. Schulz (USI), Prof. J.M. Bensing (Utrecht University), Prof. H.B. Brosius (LMU Munich) 10/2011 Florida International University, Miami, United States Visiting Student at the Community-Based Intervention Research Group (C-BIRG) Advisor Prof. M.M. Hospital (Florida International University) Equal Opportunities Service, USI (personal grant)
2 9 10/1999 06/2006 Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Jena, Germany Master of Arts (Magistra Artium) Student Major subject Minor subjects Thesis title Media Studies English Literature, Intercultural Business Communication, Italian Linguistics Channel Loyalty Among German Radio Listeners: A Secondary Analysis of Data from Media-Analyse 2000 Thesis listed in DGPuK Transfer 1/2006 Board Prof. W. Seufert (FSU), Prof. M. Suckfüll (FU Berlin) Degree obtained on 07 June 2006 09/2002 06/2003 Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy Visiting Student Socrates/Erasmus (personal grant) COMPLETED COURSE WORK 05/2014 Workshop on meta-analysis Prof. Judy Hall, Northeastern University, USA Swiss National Science Foundation 07/2012 Essex Summer School, Oxford, United Kingdom Experiments in Social Sciences (4 ETCS) Prof. Raymond Duch, Nuffield College Oxford, UK Swiss National Science Foundation (2,350 CHF) (personal grant) 11/2011 12/2011 Academic Teaching (3 ETCS) Prof. L. Cantoni, USI and Prof. N. Rege Colet, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana Università della Svizzera italiana 09/2011 R-EACH Junior Investigators Workshop, Vnà, Switzerland Workshop for young researchers in the field of communication and health care Members of the R-EACH Committee 2011 Julius and Regine Steffens grant (personal grant) 12/2010 Structural Equation Modeling, Part 2 (6 ETCS) Prof. J. Jaccard, Florida International University, USA Università della Svizzera italiana
3 9 12/2008 09/2010 Pro*Doc Communication and Health, Switzerland Doctoral school (10 ETCS) Course, Academic Presentation (Prof. M. Eppler, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) Writing, Publishing and Obtaining Funding (Prof. A. Bangerter and Prof. M. Schmid Mast, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Milestones in Communication Research (Prof. W. Donsbach, Technical University Dresden, Germany) Current Trends in Health Communication (Prof. T. Thompson, University of Dayton, USA) Interpersonal Communication (Prof. A. Bangerter, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Health Behavior Theories (Prof. K. Glanz, University of Pennsylvania, USA) Survey Research Design and Analysis (Prof. R. Rimal, George Washington University, USA) Swiss National Science Foundation 08/2010 FORS Swiss Summer School, Lugano, Switzerland Structural Equation Modeling (4.5 ETCS) Prof. P. Schmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany, and Prof. E. Davidov, University of Zurich, Switzerland Swiss National Science Foundation (750 CHF) (personal grant) 01/2010 Structural Equation Modeling, Part 1 (6 ETCS) Prof. J. Jaccard, Florida International University, USA Università della Svizzera italiana 08/2009 FORS Swiss Summer School, Lugano, Switzerland Applied Analysis of Variance and Linear Modeling (4.5 ETCS) Prof. E. Erdfelder and Dr. M. Brandt, University of Mannheim, Germany Swiss National Science Foundation (700 CHF) (personal grant)
4 9 RESEARCH & WORK EXPERIENCE 12/2008 now Scientific Collaborator at the Institute of Communication and Health Media Ticino 2014-2019 Longitudinal study on media consumption, parent-child-communication and well-being among children and adolescents in Ticino Panel study with paper-and-pencil questionnaire Coordinator Institute of Communication and Health, USI School Monitoring 2013 Follow-up study of conditions concerning nutrition, physical activity and (over-)weight in primary and secondary schools in Switzerland Online questionnaire Coordinator Public Survey 2012 Follow-up study of people s knowledge, experience and attitudes towards nutrition, physical activity and (over-)weight in Switzerland Cross-sectional study with computer-assisted telephone interviews Coordinator VATI-M: Adolescent Vaccination Against Measles in the Canton of Ticino Survey among parents in Ticino about their knowledge, attitudes and information seeking behavior regarding the vaccination of their children against measles Cross-sectional study with mixed methods (mail, online, telephone) Collaborator Institute of Communication and Health, USI Retention of Online Health Information Test of the impact of presentation style on the retention of online health information Computer-assisted randomized-controlled experiment Coordinator Institute of Communication and Health, USI
5 9 Health Literacy and Patient Empowerment: Model Validation and Communication Strategies for Improving Chronic Pain Management of three studies that aim at i) understanding determinants of selfmanagement behavior and ii) developing and evaluating a health intervention program to improve patient empowerment and chronic pain management Paper-and-pencil questionnaires (study 1 and 2), Web-based randomized-controlled intervention (study 3) Collaborator Swiss National Science Foundation (FN 130030) Public Survey 2010 Study of people s knowledge, experience and attitudes towards nutrition, physical activity and (over-)weight in Switzerland Computer-assisted telephone interviews Coordinator Evaluation of Public Poster Campaigns Evaluation of the effectiveness of public poster campaigns addressing (over-)weight and obesity in Switzerland Computer-assisted telephone interviews Collaborator Evaluation of the Cantonal Health Education Intervention rundum fit Evaluation of the effectiveness of a school-based health intervention program addressing (over-)weight and obesity among primary school children in the Canton of Lucerne Paper-and-pencil questionnaires and observations Collaborator Health Literacy Lucerne Study of people s knowledge, experience and attitudes towards nutrition, physical activity and (over-) weight among children in the Canton of Lucerne Paper-and-pencil questionnaires Collaborator Lucerne Cantonal Public Health Services 10/2006 11/2008 TelevisionResearchPartnership, Taunton, United Kingdom Research Executive and Research Manager in the area of media research with focus on television and radio research
6 9 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall term 2015, Fall term 2014, Fall term 2013 Efficacy of Health Communication via the Media, Course (28 hours, 3 ECTS) for 2nd year students of the Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health Fall term 2013, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Fall term 2012 Kulturelle Faktoren in der Gesundheitskommunikation, Guest Lecture (2 hours) during the course Gesundheitskommunikation as part of the further education program Guest Fall term 2012 Spring term 2011 Fall term 2010, Spring term 2010 Fall term 2010 Introduction to Covariance and Correlation, Guest Lecture (4 hours) during the course Data Analysis for 1st year students of the Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health Guest Breve ripetizione di statistica, Guest Lecture (4 hours) during the course Metodi di ricerca per le scienze della comunicazione for 2nd year students of the Bachelor in Communication Sciences Guest Introduction to Statistics and SPSS, Tutorial (14 hours) for 1st year students of the Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health Health Literacy, Guest Lecture (4 hours) during the course Health Communication for 1st year students of the Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health Guest
7 9 REVIEWER ACTIVITIES Ad-hoc project reviewer for: Swiss National Science Foundation Ad-hoc journal reviewer for: Health Promotion International (Oxford University Press) Patient Education & Counseling (Elsevier) PlosOne Ad-hoc conference reviewer for: Annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft DGPuK (Leipzig, Germany, 2016) Annual convention of the German Ad-hoc Group Health Communication within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft DGPuK (Lugano, Switzerland, 2015) Annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft DGPuK (Düsseldorf, Germany, 2015) Annual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA (Lisbon, Portugal, 2014) Annual conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics of COMET Society (Lugano, Switzerland, 2014) Annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft DGPuK (Passau, Germany, 2014) MEMBERSHIPS Young Scholar Network of the European Association for Communication in Health Care (YEACH) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) SERVICE Academic year 2013/2014 Postdoc Representative at the Department of Communication Sciences Master Theses Supervision Co-examination Cognitive dissonance and MMR vaccination information: Influence of attitudes and beliefs on selective exposure, perception and retention (Nicole Wicki, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health) Physician CAT-Talk: Assessing patient types for a message intervention (Chiara Marcora, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health, defended 15 January 2015) Improving oral self-care behavior: An application of the Construal Level Theory (Silvia Monestel, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health, defended 23 June 2014)
8 9 A peer-to-peer model to reduce second-hand smoke exposure at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Samira Blank, Master of Science in Marketing, defended 18 June 2014) Assessing the quality of vaccination information retrieved online with a popular search engine and two experimental conditions: A content analysis (Gabriele Sak, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health, defended 17 March 2014) Challenges in the interaction between physicians and obstinate pain patients (Maria Buser, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health, defended 31 October 2013) Bachelor Theses Co-examination Werbekampagnen in der Schweiz: Stellenwert der sprachlichen und regionalen Gegebenheiten in den drei Sprachregionen anhand Case Study BMW (Christina Maria Isabel Studer, Bachelor in Communication Sciences, presented September 2014) Il social network di una classe delle medie: Dai leaders, ai gruppi di amici, fino agli outsiders (Giacomo Mattarelli, Bachelor in Communication Sciences, presented September 2014) Master Field s Supervision Events Organization Exploratory study on nutrition and physical activity in academic high schools and vocational schools in Switzerland (Sibylle Christen, Edoardo Madussi, Rachael Scott, Master of Science in Communication, Management and Health, spring term 2012) 3 rd Annual Convention of the German Ad-hoc Group Health Communication (DGPuK), 12-14 November 2015, Lugano, Switzerland Convention organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano) and the German Ad-hoc Group Health Communication Childhood Vaccination: Making a Conscious Decision, 16 October 2014, Lugano, Switzerland Symposium organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano) and the Equal Opportunities Service (USI Lugano) ICH Positioning Day, 8 September 2014, Lugano, Switzerland Internal workshop organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano) COHERENT Communication and Health: Research on New Topics, fall term 2012, Lugano, Switzerland Weekly research colloquium organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano) ICH Health Literacy Workshop, 6 November 2012, Bellinzona, Switzerland Internal workshop organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano)
9 9 4 th Lugano-Munich Research Colloquium, 5 November 2010, Lugano, Switzerland Colloquium organized by the Institute of Communication and Health (USI Lugano) and the Institute of Communication Science and Media Research (LMU Munich) Adaptivity in Health Communication, 10-11 September 2010, Monte Verità/Ascona, Switzerland Internal conference organized by PhD students enrolled in the doctoral school Pro*Doc Communication and Health