Minhey is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research centers on mass communication, with an emphasis on persuasion and health communication. She is interested in message processing and the effects of media messages on physical and mental health. Her research delves into how the digital media landscape and individual vulnerabilities further complicate these effects, addressing topics such as the creation and dissemination of health misinformation, unhealthy gratifications sought from social media, and the vicious cycle of body image disturbance due to algorithms.