Darlene K. Drummond

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor of Speech

  • Adjunct Associate Professor, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine

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I am a Health Communication Scientist studying racially discordant provider-patient communication in the context of cancer care, diabetes, and living with other chronic illnesses. My goal as a researcher is to advance our understanding of the role identity negotiation, and explicit and implicit biases play in the decision making process of navigating health challenges. My training and expertise are in intercultural and health communication. Autoethnographic, phenomenological, feminist, critical, and arts-based epistemologies ground my work.

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Contact

Darlene.K.Drummond@dartmouth.edu
37 Dewey Fld Rd, Room 229
HB 6250

Department(s)

The Dartmouth Institute Operations, Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Education

  • B.A. Denison University
  • M.A. Eastern New Mexico University
  • PhD The Ohio State University

Selected Publications

  •           Kaur-Gill, S., Drummond, D. K., Zhang, J., Butcher, R., Eggly, S., Schifferdecker, K., …Barnato, A. E. (2024). "I didn't go into medicine just to be on the phone": Emotional expression as sacrosanct during serious illness patient-physician advanced cancer care communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Communication, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2438338

  •           Drummond, D. K., Kaur-Gill, S., Zhang, J., Eggly, S., & Barnato, A. E. (2024). Power and racial differences in the communication experiences of Black and White patients living with advanced cancer and their care partners: An application of co-cultural theory. Communication Monographs, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2024.2421485

  •           Drummond, D. K., Kaur-Gill, S., Murray, G. F., Schifferdecker, K. E., Butcher, R., Perry, A. N., Brooks, G. A., Kapadia, N. S., & Barnato, A. E. (2023). Problematic integration: Racial discordance in end-of-life decision making. Health Communication, 38(12), 2730-2741.

Works In Progress

          Drummond, D. K. (under review). The AIDS Rhetoric of U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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