Kelly Blake, ScD
Health Scientist
 Kelly Blake is a health scientist in NCI’s Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch, where she directs a program of research on health journalism and leads efforts to create a translational bridge between communication research and communication practice. She serves as part of the management team for NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), and conducts research examining how media exposure influences health behavior and attitudes toward public health policy. She also examines social determinates of health, primarily focusing on how communication inequalities and knowledge gaps exacerbate health disparities among disadvantaged populations.
Prior to re-joining NCI in 2009, Dr. Blake was a cancer prevention fellow and research assistant at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2005-2009), working in Dr. K. Viswanath’s research lab as she pursued her doctoral degree. During that time, she also did private consulting work in health communication, and served as a teaching fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, for classes entitled Society & Health (2007); Politics and Strategies for Change in Health Policy (2008); Health Promotion through Mass Media (2009); and Public Opinion, Polling, and Public Policy (2009). Before entering her doctoral program, she served as a science writer and editor in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Office of the Director (2001-2005). Prior to that, she was a hospital-based public health educator and site coordinator for the West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships Program (1997-2001), and a health communication research fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (1996-1997).
She earned a Doctor of Science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health, where her dissertation was titled "Deconstructing Public Opinion to Inform Population Strategies in Pandemic Flu Preparedness and Tobacco Control." She earned a master’s degree in community health education from West Virginia University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Marshall University.
Selected Publications:
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Flynt-Wallington S, Blake K, Taylor-Clark K, Viswanath K. Antecedents to Agenda Setting and Framing in Health and Medical Science News: An Examination of Source and Resource Usage from a National Survey of U.S. Health Reporters and Editors. J Health Comm 2009 Dec:14(8).
Viswanath K, Blake K, Meissner HI, Saiontz N, Mull C, Freeman CS, Hesse B, Croyle RT. Occupational Practices and the Making of Health News: A National Survey of U.S. Health and Medical Science Journalists. J Health Comm 2008 Dec;13(8):759-77.
Blake K, Viswanath K, Blendon RJ, Vallone D. The role of tobacco-specific media exposure, knowledge, and smoking status on adult attitudes toward tobacco control (in press, Nicotine & Tobacco Research).
Blake K, Viswanath K, Blendon RJ, Vallone D. The role of tobacco-specific media exposure on adult attitudes toward proposed policies to limit the portrayal of smoking in movies (under review).
Blake K, Blendon RJ, Viswanath K. Employment factors associated with working adults’ ability to comply with pandemic flu mitigation recommendations (in press, Emerging Infectious Diseases).
Flynt-Wallington S, Blake K, Viswanath K, Taylor-Clark K. Challenges Covering Health Disparities in Local Media Outlets: Insights from Massachusetts Journalists (under review).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Blake K, Flynt-Wallington S, Viswanath K. Using Survey Data to Capture Cancer Information Channel Preferences by Class, Race, and Place (in press, Hampton Press edited volume, 2009)
Viswanath K, Flynt-Wallington S, Blake K. Media and Population Health (in press, Sage Handbook on Media and Health Effects, 2009).
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