Dr. Lu Tang
Director
Professor
Dr. Lu Tang is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University. She received her doctorate in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. She taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Alabama before joining TAMU in 2017.
Her research shows how people understand and communicate about health and illness and how such understanding and communication are enabled and constrained by social, political, cultural, and technological factors. Currently, her research focuses on the spread of health misinformation on social media, especially misinformation related to vaccines. Her work has been covered in major news outlets including CNBC, Time, Bloomberg Law, and Houston Chronicle.
