Archana Krishnan

Assistant Professor

University at Albany

 

Dr. Archana Krishnan is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the University of Connecticut with a specialization in computer-mediated communication, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship from Yale University in mobile health (mHealth). Dr. Krishnan's research is grounded in distinct areas such as health communication, computer-mediated communication, mHealth and global public health. One of her key interests is to examine how mobile technologies can be leveraged to improve and maintain favorable health behaviors, e.g., medication adherence, in underserved populations. Her work has been published in various transdisciplinary journals such as Journal of Applied Communication Research, Mobile Media and Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, PLoS ONE, AIDS and Behavior, and Health Communication. She was selected as an mHealth scholar at the prestigious 2016 mHealth Training Institute, and has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and Bristol-Myers Squibb.