Contact Information
702 S Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
Biography
Brian Quick is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an appointment in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois. Professor Quick is also the Director of the Online Master of Science degree in Health Communication.
Professor Quick’s research and teaching interests are in social marketing. His research employs various behavior change models to the context of public health, sports, injury prevention, financial stability, community engagement, and the environmental. Together, Professor Quick and his associates strive to improve the quality of life for individuals. In addition to designing, implementing, and evaluating campaigns, Professor Quick’s work examines the role of cognition and emotion when processing promotional messages as well as explores how media portrayals create, change, and reinforce belief structures.
Education
Texas A & M University, 2005, PhD
Missouri State University, 2001, MA
College of the Ozarks, 1999, BS
Courses Taught
CMN 102: Introduction to Communication
CMN 529: Persuasion
CMN 508: Health Marketing
CMN 465: Social Marketing
Additional Campus Affiliations
Director, Health Communication Online Master of Science (HCOM) Program, Communication
Professor, Communication
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Recent Publications
Quick, B. L., & Kriss, L. A. (2025). Examining the Influence on Organ Donation by Actor Portrayal of Altruism on the Television Show Grey's Anatomy. Progress in Transplantation, Article 15269248251343380. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248251343380
Quick, B., Caban, S., Chung, M., & Yan, J. (2025). Introducing health communication science to mental health researchers: An examination of information seeking, processing, and dissemination frameworks. In The Handbook of Mental Health Communication (pp. 93-107). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394179909.ch7
Quick, B. L., Morrow, E., Wilson, S. R., Chung, M., Hartman, D. E., & Koester, B. D. (2025). Psilocybin Legalization in the United States and Psychological Reactance: ATest of Evidence Uncertainty, Controlling Language, and an Ambiguous Call to Action. Motivation Science, 11(2), 158-167. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000361
Hartman, D. E., & Quick, B. L. (2024). Breaking the Silence: Examining the Role of Parent Involvement and Concussion Knowledge on Sports-Related Concussion Conversations. Communication and Sport, 12(3), 491-510. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795231181114
Hartman, D. E., & Quick, B. (2024). Exploring Message Framing's Impact on Parent-Child Communication about Sport-Related Concussions in Youth Sports. Communication and Sport, 13(4), 779-799. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241287413