Updates
Latest paper of the role of posting food photos on social media with colleagues Kendall Tyson and Kelsi Morefield at Telematics and Informatics
New paper on the importance of food environments in addition to media effects for healthy eating with colleague O'Connell published at Journalism and Media
Check out our new paper on the distal effects of healthy eating ads with Dr. Dempsey at Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
About
Eulàlia P. Abril is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research revolves around persuasion, campaigns, and social media with topics in the areas of health and political communication.
Some of the courses Abril has taught include seminars in health communication, public opinion and political communication, and research methods, as well as an online course in introduction to communication.
Abril earned her Ph.D. from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has an M.A. from the Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at UW; a cand.oecon.agro. degree (M.Sc.) from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (currently the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen) in Denmark, and a Llicenciatura degree (B.A.) in Economics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.