Selected Publications
Exploring the role of culture and cognitive heuristics in assessing the credibility of cancer (mis)information on Facebook among U.S. Latinos/as
Health Communication (2025)
Engagement with and use of health information on social media among US Latino individuals: National cross-sectional survey study
Journal of Medical Internet Research (2025)
Accurate and inaccurate beliefs about cancer risk factors among Spanish-speaking adults in the United States
PEC Innovations (2024)
How ChatGPT and CDC compare in providing accurate, readable, and understandable information on vaccination in English and Spanish
JMIR Formative Research (2024)
HPV vaccine information sources, needs, and preferences among Black and Hispanic mothers
Journal of Health Communication (2024)
When engagement leads to action: Understanding the impact of cancer (mis)information among Latino/a Facebook users
Health Communication (2022)
Reducing cancer health disparities among U.S. Latinos: A Freireian approach
International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (2018)
Exploring the reasons and ways Puerto Rican college students search for safer sex information
Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2013)
Leveraging digital spaces and datafication in communication research: Contributions of digital qualitative fluidity to ethnographic interviewing
Journal of Communication (2025)
Contextualizing engagement with health information on Facebook: Using the social media content and context elicitation method
Journal of Medical Internet Research (2022)
Promoting justice in locating and tracking research participants through social media
American Journal of Bioethics (2019)
The expert next door: A commentary on interactions with friends and family during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
American Journal of Epidemiology (2022)
National priorities to combat misinformation and disinformation for COVID-19 and future public health threats: A call for a national strategy
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security report (2021)
Factors associated with intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in Puerto Rico: An online survey of adults
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021)
Longitudinal risk communication: A research agenda for communicating in a pandemic
Health Security (2020)
Development of a culturally relevant digital skin cancer prevention intervention for Hispanic individuals: Qualitative exploration
JMIR Formative Research (2024)
Barriers and facilitators to skin cancer prevention among Hispanics: A qualitative study
BMC Public Health (2024)
Comparison of health communication channels for reaching Hispanics about biobanking: A pilot trial
Journal of Cancer Education (2017)
Developing sustainable cancer education programs: Training public health students to deliver Cancer 101 in Puerto Rico
Journal of Cancer Education (2016)
When a common language is not enough: Transcreating Cancer 101 for communities in Puerto Rico
Journal of Cancer Education (2015)
Promoting effective use of patient-reported outcomes in clinical practice: themes from a “Methods Toolkit” paper series
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2020)
A PRO-cision medicine methods toolkit to address the challenges of personalizing cancer care using patient-reported outcomes
Medical Care (2019)
Making a picture worth a thousand numbers: Recommendations for graphically displaying patient-reported outcomes data
Quality of Life Research (2018)