健康与风险传播艺术硕士学位是由传播艺术与科学学院与人类医学学院合作管理的跨学科课程。该计划使学生准备利用沟通原则和风险沟通策略的力量来促进积极的公共卫生成果。该计划旨在帮助学生广泛了解健康和风险沟通理论和原理，在创建有效的健康和风险沟通计划和干预措施方面获得实践，并学习如何设计，使用和评论相关研究。毕业生可以在政府机构，医院，HMO，保险公司，非营利组织，医学贸易出版社和其他与健康服务相关的组织中谋求职业。
The Health and Risk Communication M.A. (HRCMA) program will make you an expert in the theory and practice of health communication, one of the most pressing topics in today's world. You will learn to design, write/create, implement, and evaluate evidence-based health and risk messages to communicate effectively. Courses on mass communication and public health, epidemiology, health communication for diverse populations, quantitative research methods, and a practicum will make you a well-rounded professional health communicator.<br>The Master of Arts degree in Health and Risk Communication is an interdisciplinary program administered by the College of Communication Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the College of Human Medicine. The program prepares students to harness the power of communication principles and risk communication strategies to promote positive public health outcomes. The program is designed to help students to gain a broad understanding of health and risk communication theory and principles, to gain practice in creating effective health and risk communication programs and interventions, and to learn how to design, use, and critique relevant research. Graduates may pursue careers with government agencies, hospitals, HMOs, insurance companies, nonprofits, the medical trade press, and other health service-related organizations.<br>Individualized programs of study can be tailored to accommodate a broad range of academic and professional backgrounds. Previously enrolled students have undergraduate degrees in biology, anthropology, communication, public relations, kinesiology, dietetics, pre-medicine, and English as well as other fields. In addition to completing core courses in health communication, research methods, epidemiology, and a health or risk-related internship with a local, state, national, or international organization, students may choose electives from a broad range of health-related courses offered throughout the university. Students may select courses that are related to broad areas within health communication such as health communication theory and principles, risk communication, health marketing, designing health and risk messages, policy, sociology of health, science writing, media relations, and other communication-focused areas.