Chan Le Thai

Chan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication.  Her research interests lie at the intersection of media effects and health promotion. Having received her Master of Public Health (MPH) in Community Health Promotion with an emphasis in nutrition education at the UCLA School of Public Health, her current research agenda is related to fusing knowledge from media effects research into nutrition education curricula with the goal of improving dietary outcomes. Specifically, she is investigating the impact of health claims, graphical features, and ingredient claims found on food packaging on consumer beliefs and whether teaching media literacy skills may serve to increase knowledge about and use of food packaging features, and in turn, affect dietary outcomes.

 

Chan has extensive experience in program evaluation, specifically in the evaluation of school-based nutrition education programs with K-5 students, teacher, and parent subject populations.