Amanda Yarnell
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Amanda Yarnell
@amandayarnell.bsky.social
How creators and other media gatekeepers are reshaping information ecosystems + audience beliefs and behaviors | Currently leads @HarvardChanSchool Center for Health Communication | Formerly C&EN. Opinions=mine. She/her.
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You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.
February 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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NEW RCT. Partnering w/TikTok creators, we find that exposure to evidence-based mental health info. increases young people's perceived & objective emotional support abilities.

w/ @amandayarnell.bsky.social, Yuning Liu, & @harvardchanschool.bsky.social CHC.

Available here! osf.io/preprints/so...
December 6, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The #HealthCoverageFellowship has trained hundreds of health journalists in the past two decades. Starting in 2025 the fellowship + its founding director Larry Tye have a new home in the Center for Health Communication @harvardchanschool.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 9:19 PM
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NEW from Yuning Liu, @amandayarnell.bsky.social, and I:

Our past field exp. work "influenced the influencers" to consult sci. evidence. Now, we find that exposure to that content improves mental health discourse on TikTok.

osf.io/preprints/so...
October 6, 2024 at 4:58 PM