Susana Peinado
Ms. Peinado is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her research interests are in health communication and include: patient-centered communication, health literacy, the spread of emotional health messages in social networks, and social determinants of health. At UCSB, Ms. Peinado works with Health Games Research, a national program to advance the effectiveness of digital games that promote health, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Before entering the doctoral program at UCSB, she worked within the Health Communication program at RTI International, a non-profit research institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She has also worked as a health communication program specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute, National institutes of Health. Ms. Peinado received an M.A. in Communication with a focus on Health from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Grinnell College.
