UGA College of Public Health
Environmental Health Science
Fall Seminar Series

The use of eye-tracking and neuroimaging methods in cannabis and tobacco regulatory science research

This week’s speaker: Jiaying Liu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Director, Communication, Health, and Emerging Media Laboratory (CHARM Lab) University of Georgia

This seminar will take place on Friday, September 30, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. at Aderhold Hall in room G5. (NOTE: In person location!).  Everyone is welcome to attend! For more information, contact Darien Bush.

Jiaying Liu (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at UGA. She also serves as a Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Psychology. Her primary research interest lies at the intersection of health communication, social psychology, computational social science methods and psychophysiological methods. She is interested in understanding the factors and underlying processes that lead to risky health decision making, and how communication could be optimally leveraged to promote desirable behavior changes. Dr. Liu is routinely involved in highly collaborative, interdisciplinary work, and is an associate editor of Health Communication. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator on a K01 and an R21 awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to apply the use of neuroimaging methods in tobacco regulatory research.