Research Summary
Dr. Lumpkins’ primary research focuses on the intersection between evidence-based public health communication, precision public health, health equity and implementation science to advance health outcome among minoritized populations in the Mountain West and Midwest areas.
Education
- Masters of Media Communication, Communication, Webster University. Project: Civic Journalism and the Community
- PhD, Strategic Communication/Health Communication, University of Missouri-Columbia. Project: Information processing of religious symbols in breast cancer advertisements among African American women
- Community Based Participatory Research, Preventive Medicine and Population Health, University of Kansas Medical Center
Biography
Dr. Crystal (Yvette) Lumpkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah and Cancer Disparities Researcher within the Population Sciences Division at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was also recently named a Program Liaison for the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED) Core at Huntsman.
Dr. Lumpkins received her Doctorate with an emphasis in Health Communication and Strategic Communication in 2007 at the University of Missouri-Columbia and a dual Master of Arts Degree in Media Communication and Management in 1997 from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Lumpkins’ primary research focuses on the intersection between evidence-based public health communication, precision public health, health equity and implementation science to advance health outcome among minoritized populations in the Mountain West and Midwest areas. Within this intersection and in these regions, she has explored why current communication gaps exist among Black populations concerning cancer-related genetic counseling and testing and how these deficits have contributed to cancer disparities and health communication inequities. In this work, she takes a community based participatory research approach and has engaged with African American, Black immigrant and other under-represented populations in Kansas, Missouri, and Utah.
She is currently Principal Investigator of two Huntsman Cancer Institute pilot projects (Five for the Fight Fellowship program and the HCI Population Sciences Community Outreach and Engagement Partner Award).