Selected publications

Publications

Selected publications and field-facing scholarship on health evidence, information quality, evidence translation, health literacy, computational methods, misleading information, environmental public health, and population health.

Selected work

Publications on health evidence, information quality, computational methods, and public and population health.

Nature Human Behaviour, in press Ivic, R. K., Ratzan, S. C., & Parker, R. M. (2026, in press). Building Health Literate Artificial Intelligence. Nature Human Behaviour.

Nature Health, 2026 Piltch-Loeb, R., Wyka, K., White, T., Ratzan, S. C., Rabin, K., Ivic, R. K., Batista, C., & El-Mohandes, A. (2026). A global survey on trust, digital health literacy and health information quality. Nature Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00102-4

Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, and 20+ journals, 2026 Ratzan, S. C., Ivic, R. K., Rabin, K. H., Parker, R. M., Rubinelli, S., Obregon, R., Gostin, L. O., Baker, M. G., Thomas, S., Nutbeam, D., Kickbusch, I., Payne, J. G., Ihekweazu, V., McCaffery, K. J., Street, R. L., & Cooper, C. (2026). Safeguarding quality in health and medical science information today. Public Health Research & Practice, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1071/PU26042 Published across 20+ journals and multiple publishers, including Journal of Health Communication, Health Communication, American Behavioral Scientist, and Public Health Research & Practice.

STAT First Opinion, 2025 Rubinelli, S., Ivic, R. K., Rabin, K. H., Gostin, L. O., & Ratzan, S. C. (2025, December 26). PubMed has competition from Germany. That's a very good thing. STAT First Opinion. STAT News. https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/26/pubmed-zb-med-scientific-repository-livivo/

Journal of Health Communication, 2025 Ivic, R. K., Rubinelli, S., Franco, C. L., Sams, A., Ginwal, P., Obregon, R., & Ratzan, S. C. (2025). Who shapes the future of health communication? Networks, silos, and new imperatives in the digital age. Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2574675

Journal of Health Communication, 2025 Ratzan, S. C., Ivic, R. K., Rubinelli, S., Kim, H. K., Rabin, K., & Parker, R. M. (2025). Advancing health communication: A call for the future. 30 years of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives. Journal of Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2025.2515206

Health Communication, 2025 Ivic, R. K., Carmack, H. J., Amangalieva, G., & Nicholas, G. (2025). Thematic and scholarly trajectories in the journal Health Communication. Health Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2505790

JMIR Infodemiology, 2025 Ivic, R. K., Ritchart, A., Kanthawala, S., & Carmack, H. C. (2025). Messaging and information in mental health communication on social media. Journal of Medical Internet Research Infodemiology, 5, e48230. https://doi.org/10.2196/48230