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 recent work examines various strategies to promote public health, environmental conservation, injury prevention, safety, financial stability, and community engagement. Together, Professor Quick and his associates strive to save lives as well as greatly improve the quality of life for individuals. In addition to designing, implementing, and evaluating social marketing campaigns, Professor Quick’s work examines the role of cognition and emotion when processing ads as well as media portrayals of important societal issues to understand how these messages 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: Succesful Health Campaigns
CMN 465: Social Marketing
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Quick, B. L., Kriss, L. A., Rains, S. A., Sherlock-Jones, M., & Jang, M. (Accepted/In press). An Investigation into the Portrayal of Organ Donation on Grey’s Anatomy Seasons 1 Through 15. Health communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2163051
Quick, B. L., Glowacki, E. M., Kriss, L. A., & Hartman, D. E. (2023). Raising Concussion Awareness among Amateur Athletes: An Examination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Heads Up Campaign. Health communication, 38(2), 298-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1950295
Hartman, D. E., & Quick, B. L. (Accepted/In press). A Reasoned Action Approach to Limiting Excessive Social Media Usage Among Adults. Health communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2129315
Kriss, L. A., Quick, B. L., Rains, S. A., & Barbati, J. L. (2022). Psychological Reactance Theory and COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: The Roles of Threat Magnitude and Direction of Threat. Journal of Health Communication, 27(9), 654-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2148023
Rains, S. A., Colombo, P. M., Quick, B. L., & Kriss, L. A. (2022). State mask mandates and psychological reactance theory: The role of political partisanship and COVID-19 risk in mask adoption and resistance. Social Science and Medicine, 314, [115479]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115479