Researching with Community.Communicating for Justice.Transforming Health Together.

What We Do

Hope Health Communication (HHC) is a research lab and health communication platform that partners with communities to design and implement culturally rooted, evidence-based tools, including digital storytelling and message co-creation, to improve the health and well-being of communities impacted by structural inequities.

Dr. Rochelle R. Davidson Mhonde

Dr. Rochelle R.
Davidson Mhonde, PhD

Lab Director

Meet the team
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Current Research

Digital Intervention for Sexual Health - Black Parent-Adolescent Communication

Digital Intervention for Sexual Health - Black Parent-Adolescent Communication

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Sexual Health & Faith-based Messages

Sexual Health & Faith-based Messages

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Recent Publications

Black Parents’ Rape Myth Acceptance

Black Parents’ Rape Myth Acceptance

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Our Lab Philosophy

Hope is not sentimental. It is methodical. It is the engine behind our refusal to accept health inequity as inevitable.
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