Ava Kikut-Stein

Biography

Education and Training

• PhD, Communication
  University of Pennsylvania

Awards and Honors

• Abby Prestin Dissertation of the Year, 2024
  International Communication Association & National Communication Association
• Top Paper in Health Communication, 2024
  International Communication Association
• Top Early Career Scholar-led Paper Award, 2024
  Kentucky Conference on Health Communication
• for Global Cancer Prevention Travel Award, 2024
  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Public Health Education and Promotion Student Award, 2023
  American Public Health Association

Publications

• Integrating youth participatory action research and health communication to inform youth and young adult covid-19 vaccine communication research.

  Kikut-Stein A, Givan K, Fishman J, Blanco-Liz A, Alvarez-Sanchez D, Fletcher J, Gambrell R, Hernandez A, Richardson C, Shaw A, von Oiste JJ. Health Educ Res 2024 Sep 13

• Youth Participatory Action Communication Research: A Model for Developing Youth-Driven Health Campaigns.

  Kikut-Stein A, Givan K, Branson P, Fishman J, Bailey K, Paolicelli M, Crockett T, Morris T, Adesipo A, Allen D, Blanco-Liz A, Bonds LF, Brooks N, Carriker M, Francis K, Jean Pierre M, Konner H, Myers R, Newkirk N, Poole M, Riina N, Robinson M, Rubens V, Savage A, Savage M, Sy D, Zhou X, Tan A. Health Commun 2024 Jul 31

• Should Communication Campaigns Promoting Vaccination Address Misinformation Beliefs? Implications from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Survey Study among U.S. Adults.

  Clark D, Kikut-Stein A, Jesch E, Hornik R. J Health Commun 2024 Apr 02

• Behavioral Beliefs Predict Recommended Behaviors, Especially When Trust in Public Health Sources is Low: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Three COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors Among U.S. Adults.

  Kikut-Stein A. J Health Commun 2024 01 02

• The doctor knows or the evidence shows: An online survey experiment testing the effects of source trust, pro-vaccine evidence, and dual-processing in expert messages recommending child COVID-19 vaccination to parents.

  Kikut AI. PLoS One 2025