Elaine Hsieh, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor and Chair
Communication Studies
University of Minnesota
Affliate Faculty, Health Law & Bioethics Concentration
Univ. of Minnesota Law School
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Bioethics
Univ. of Minnesota
Visiting Professor, Health Communication
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: Elaine Hsieh
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1993-4976
NEWS
Masonic Cross-Department Grant
February 13, 2024
Dr. Elaine Hsieh recently received the Masonic Cross-Departmental Grant. The 2024-2026 project is titled "Reimagining Language Equity: Defining Best Practices in Partnering with Informal Interpreters of Somali Families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit." Dr. Jennifer Needle (PI; Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine; Associate Professor, Bioethics) and Dr. Elaine Hsieh (PI; Professor, Communication Studies) will work with community partners to examine naturalistic interpreter-mediated interactions in the neonatal intensive care unit and explore the critical roles and impacts of informal interpreters in healthcare delivery.
Affliate Faculty
Health Law & Bioethics
In June 2023, I became an affiliate faculty member at the Health Law & Bioethics Concentrations at the University of Minnesota Law School. I am excited to have the opportunity to work with law students to address health policies that impact our access to and quality of care for marginalized populations.
Affiliate Faculty
June, 2023
In June 2023, I became an affliate faculty member at the Center for Bioethics, Univerity of Minnesota. I am excited to collaborate with faculty members at the Center to examine issues related to bioethics in cross-ccultural care.
Book Review
Health Communication, published online
"Elaine Hsieh and Eric M. Kramer draw from their own groundbreaking research [...] to conceptualize the field of health communication writ large through the lens of intercultural encounters. They accomplish this task in a way that both serves as a welcoming introduction to the field for students and emergent scholars and, at the same time, as a nuanced, theoretically rich resource for senior scholars already well familiar with the field, its history, and its core theoretical trajectories.." Jensen & Almuaili
Recent Activities
2024 NTNU
Invited Talk: May 14, 2023
Dr. Eric Kramer and Dr. Elaine Hsieh shared their research careers with doctoral students at the National Taiwan Normal Unversity. With this presentation, we hope to encourage young scholars to pursue a rigorous research career that is filled with joy and curiosity.
2024 Fu Jen Catholic University
Invited Talk: May 4, 2023
Dr. Hsieh presented her recent work, " Healthcare interpreting as a contextually situated, locally managed communicative activity," as a part of Cross-Cultural Communication and Medical Interpreting Workshop hosted by the Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2024 UNC
Center for Bioethics
Dr. Hsieh provided a lecture at the Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds hosted by the Center of Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. See the recorded letecture.
Journal Article
The Landscape of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing in Reproductive Health Contexts