Robin Stevens

Associate Professor, Communication
Associate Dean for Research
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Robin Stevens, PhD, MPH is a health communication scholar working to achieve health equity in African American and Latinx communities in the United States. Stevens uses digital epidemiology to investigate youth well-being, sexual health, mental health and substance use in the context of the digital neighborhood. She uses interdisciplinary community-engaged approaches to improve the health and well-being of Black youth. Her work is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Stevens is the director of the Health Equity & Media Lab. She received her AB from Harvard College, MPH from the University of Michigan, and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is a proud Philadelphian.
Award
Nov 2019 • Awarded the Early Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion section of APHA
Selected Publication
Essence Lynn Wilson, Lindsay Young, Robin Stevens
Aug 2024 • Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology • Educational Publishing Foundation
Yunwen Wang, Karen O’Connor, Ivan Flores, Carl T. Berdahl, Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Robin Stevens, José A. Bauermeister, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Aug 2024 • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 10, e59193
Yunwen Wang, Jacqueline Ann Bannon, Natalia Roszkowska, Essence Lynn Wilson, Stephen Bonett, Elizabeth Lazarus, Nadia Dowshen, Robin Stevens
Jul 2024 • BMC Digital Health 2(1), 44
Yunwen Wang, Karen O’Connor, Ivan Flores, Carl Berdahl, Ryan Urbanowicz, Robin Stevens, José Bauermeister, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Mar 2024 • medRxiv • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Preprints
Lindsay Young, Yuanfeixue Nan, Eugene Jang, Robin Stevens
Dec 2023 • Current HIV/AIDS Reports 20(6), 470-480 • Springer
Maritza Vasquez Reyes, Caitlin Elsaesser, Jocelyn Smith Lee, Jacquelyn Santiago Nazario, Robin Stevens
Oct 2023 • Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17
Erin Maloney, Amy Bleakley, Robin Stevens, Morgan Ellithorpe, Amy Jordan
Apr 2023 • Health education journal 82(3), 324-335 • SAGE Publications
Emily Pfender, Amy Bleakley, Morgan Ellithorpe, Michael Hennessey, Erin Maloney, Amy Jordan, Robin Stevens
Jan 2023 • Journal of Children and Media 16(4), 514-531 • SAGE Publications
Anne Washington, Lauren Rhue, Lisa Nakamura, Robin Stevens
Dec 2022 • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences • NIH Public Access
Robin Stevens, Stephen Bonett, Kahaari Kenyatta, Deepti Chittamuru, Amy Bleakley, Jackie Jingyi Xu, Yunwen Wang, Nicole Bush
Oct 2022 • Journal of Children and Media 16(4), 514-531 • Routledge
Su Golder, Karen O'Connor, Yunwen Wang, Robin Stevens, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Aug 2022 • Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 5(1), 251-267
Amy Bleakley, Morgan Ellithorpe, Amy Jordan, Michael Hennessy, Robin Stevens
Jul 2022 • Appetite 174, 106010 • Academic Press
Jimin Oh, Stephen Bonett, Elissa C Kranzler, Bruno Saconi, Robin Stevens
Jun 2022 • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 8(6), e32718
Davy Weissenbacher, J Ivan Flores, Yunwen Wang, Karen O’Connor, Siddharth Rawal, Robin Stevens, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
May 2022 • AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings 2022, 504
Su Golder, Robin Stevens, Karen O'Connor, Richard James, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Apr 2022 • Journal of medical Internet research 24(4), e35788
Bridgette Brawner, Jelani Kerr, Billie Castle, Jaqueline Bannon, Stephen Bonett, Robin Stevens, Richard James, Lisa Bowleg
Mar 2022 • AIDS and Behavior 26(3), 874-934 • Springer
Steven Meanley, Cristian Chandler, Jessica Jaiswal, Dalmacio Flores, Robin Stevens, Daniel Connochie, José Bauermeister
Jul 2021 • Behavioral Medicine 47(3), 225-235 • Taylor & Francis
Robin Stevens, Karen O'Connor, Richard James, Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez
Feb 2021 • SocArXiv • Center for Open Science
Shawnika Hull, Robin Stevens, Jasmine Cobb
Dec 2020 • Health communication 35(14), 1740-1742 • Routledge
Stephen Bonett, Steven Meanley, Robin Stevens, Bridgette Brawner, José Bauermeister
Oct 2020 • AIDS and Behavior 24(10), 2781-2796 • Springer
Robin Stevens, Stephen Bonett, Jacqueline Bannon, Deepti Chittamuru, Barry Slaff, Safa Browne, Sarah Huang, José Bauermeister
Jun 2020 • Journal of Medical Internet Research 22(6)
Mixed Methods Study
Robin Stevens, Bridgette Brawner, Elissa Kranzler, Salvatore Giorgi, Elizabeth Lazarus, Maramawit Abera, Sarah Huang and Lyle Ungar
Edited by Travis Sanchez
Mar 2020 • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 6(1):e16191
Seeking Safe Sex Information
Robin Stevens, Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Jamie Dunaev, Abigail Todhunter-Reid, Bridgette Brawner and Jennifer Stewart
Sep 2017 • Nursing Research 66(5):368-377
Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Neighborhood
Robin Stevens, Jamie Dunaev, Ellen Malven, Amy Bleakley and Shawnika Hull
Jun 2016 • Media and Communication 4(3):60-70
Social Media Use among Youth in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Robin Stevens, Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Jamie Dunaev, Marcus Woods and Bridgette M Brawner
Jan 2016 • New Media & Society 19(6):950-967
The Influence of Newspaper Coverage of HIV/AIDS on HIV/AIDS Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 1993-2007
Robin Stevens and Robert C Hornik
Mar 2014 • Journal of Health Communication 19(8):893-906
Robin Stevens, Stephen Bernadini and John B Jemmott
Jul 2013 • Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care 15(10):1148-1161
An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of HIV/AIDS in the United States from 1992–2007
Robin Stevens and Shawnika Hull
Jun 2013 • Critical Arts Projects & Unisa Press 27(3):352-369