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Andy Tan is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication. Tan鈥檚 research program is aimed at advancing communication science to achieve health equity for all. His work examines the impact of marketing, media, and public health messages on health behaviors and outcomes among diverse populations including young adults, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. He conducts community-engaged research involving organizations that serve LGBT communities to design and develop culturally appropriate communication interventions that are informed by persuasion and message effects theories, social determinants of health frameworks, and implementation science. He utilizes mixed-methods research designs, including sequential designs integrating multiple data collection and analytic methods (e.g., social media and news content analysis, qualitative interviews and focus groups, digital photovoice and diaries, online surveys, and randomized experimental designs). The goal of this work is to translate this knowledge into scalable and culturally sensitive communication interventions to alleviate tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities.

He mentors students, trainees, and new investigators including individuals from underrepresented minority backgrounds. Tan鈥檚 research has received funding from FDA, NCI, and private foundations. He received his medical degree from the National University of Singapore, his Master in Public Health and Master in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication. Prior to his doctoral work, Tan has over 5 years of medical and health promotion experience including designing, implementing, and evaluating strategic communications programs.

Greg Wrenn, associate professor of English, is a poet, memoirist, and environmental writer. Taking readers to the most pristine coral reefs on earth, Greg’s is an evidence-based account of how he turned to the ocean, rainforests, and psychedelic plants to recover from childhood trauma when talk therapy and pharmaceuticals did little to help. He has also published , an award-winning poetry collection. He was educated at Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Stanford University.
A certified advanced scuba diver and yoga teacher, he has logged over 200 dives in Australia, South America, Hawaii, Palau, and the Caribbean, in addition to Indonesia, where his research site is located. 
His teaching focuses on getting students to think in a highly interdisciplinary way. For instance, in Environmental Literature of Wonder and Crisis, his GenEd course, he incorporates climate change science into the study of literature. And his nature writing students are required to observe wildlife in the national forest and interview local community members about environmental issues.

Education:


Ph.D. teaching and teacher education, University of Michigan; M.A., B.S. elementary education, University of New Mexico




Research interests:


LGBTQ issues in education, LGBTQ-identifying teacher and student experiences, social studies education, civics education, researcher-practitioner partnerships, curricular development studies