Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair
Email: emily.cramer@howard.edu
Website: emilymcramer.net

Emily M. Cramer, PhD, studies how affordances of computer-mediated communication technologies shape human interaction and compel action—ways new media can be used strategically to bring about positive change in communities, particularly in the realm of health. Her work has been published in Behaviour and Information Technology, Health Communication, and Computers in Human Behavior, among other respected outlets.

Most recently, Emily was awarded a $50,000 grant as part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Centers at Minority Institutions (RCMI) Investigator Development Core (IDC) for a project entitled, “Reducing stress while navigating virtual learning: A tool to help minority students stay afloat.” Emily is also co-investigator for another NIH-RCMI-IDC project entitled “Enhancing recruitment of African-Americans and Hispanics in health research: Using CBPR to inform culturally sensitive messages on social media” ($99,000).

Other research interests: Emily’s recent work in new media examines the use of screenshots as a form of networked sociality and in the digital sousveillance of racism in online networks. A preeclampsia survivor, Emily also examines the communication needs of pregnant women, women with a history of preeclampsia/HDP and Black women disproportionately impacted by hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

With 10 years’ professional experiences in PR at a nationally recognized healthcare organization, Emily is also the faculty advisor for Howard University’s D. Parke Gibson Chapter of PRSSA.