Erica Weintraub Austin (Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor and the director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion Research in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Her scholarship and outreach focus on how media literacy and parent-child communication about media contribute to decision making about health and civic affairs among youth and adults. The American Academy of Pediatrics has cited her research in multiple policy statements about the health effects of the media on children and adolescents.