Ioana A. Coman (Ph.D., University of Tennessee) is an assistant professor at Texas Tech University. As a scholar, her research agenda is positioned within a public-centric/audience-centric perspective and under the wider umbrella of risk and crisis communication in the areas of public health, health communication, and sociopolitical/hot-button issues-related communication. Her work is cross-disciplinary and has thus far focused on topics such as vaccines, pandemic and outbreaks, climate change, and terrorist attacks. Her research has received national and international awards and grants, including the Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar Grant in 2019, 2020, and 2021. She is a co-editor of the Routledge book Political Communication and COVID-19 Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis. Coman has been published in various journals such as Mass Communication and Society, Vaccine, the Journal of Primary Care and Community, Global Health Promotion, and The International Journal on Press and Politics.