{"id":259,"date":"2017-09-04T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T12:44:13","slug":"shaunak-sastry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/profiles\/shaunak-sastry\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaunak Sastry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-814 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/files\/2018\/05\/0472SastryShaunak2545.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"231\" \/>Title: <\/strong>Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<p><strong>University: <\/strong>University of Cincinatti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:\u00a0<\/strong>sastrysk@ucmail.uc.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter: <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong>N\/A<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Description of Work:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Shaunak Sastry, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2012) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati and an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care-cca.com\/staff\/affiliate\/\">affiliate faculty<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.care-cca.com\/\">Center for Culture-Centered Research and Evaluation<\/a>. His areas of interest are global health communication, critical theory and culture-centered approaches to social change with a particular emphasis on HIV\/AIDS campaigns in the global south. He has published peer-reviewed articles in\u00a0<em>Health Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Studies in Symbolic Interaction<\/em>\u00a0in addition to book chapters and close to 20 paper presentations at national and international conferences. He is currently working on publishing manuscripts from his dissertation, for which he was awarded the Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship (2011-12). For the last two years, he has been a project manager and research assistant on the\u00a0<em>Heart Health Indiana<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hearthealthindiana.com\/\">campaign\u00a0<\/a>under the aegis of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuahd.org\/\">CUAHD<\/a>\u00a0(Communities and Universities addressing Health Disparities), a community-based heart-health initiative located in two Indiana counties. At the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Sastry teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in health communication, environmental communication, rhetorical theory and critical theories of health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Assistant Professor University: University of Cincinatti Email:\u00a0sastrysk@ucmail.uc.edu Twitter: N\/A Website: N\/A Description of Work: Shaunak Sastry, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2012) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/profiles\/shaunak-sastry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaunak Sastry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":43,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/868"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}