Graduate Students
Mavis Essel
contact information
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Office: CIS 3070
biography
Mavis Freeman Essel is a doctoral student at the university of South Florida studying health communication.
Mavis’s research interest investigates how social media can be used to create awareness on caesarean sections, especially in rural areas in developing countries like Ghana where stigma associated with caesarean sections and gender norms have influenced the choices of most women, limiting their knowledge about the procedure and increasing maternal mortality.
research areas
Health communication, Gender, Qualitative Methods, New media communication.
advisor
Aisha Durham