Dr Satveer Kaur-Gill from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln studies the interpersonal, intergroup, structural, and socioecological processes of communication to understand health disparities and inequalities globally. A critical health communication scholar, Satveer conducts multimethod research approaches to understand and rectify the communicative inequalities facing communities that are underserved, minoritized, and marginalized from equitable access to healthcare they need. For example, some of Satveer’s projects include: (a) health activism with precarious migrant workers facing health injustices in South and Southeast Asia; (b) health meanings of communities facing financial and food insecurity; (c) implicit and explicit bias during racially discordant patient-provider communication encounters; and (d) intersectional approaches to reproductive justice.

Satveer was awarded the 2016-2017 Yale Fox Fellowship, a 2019-2020 US ASEAN Fulbright for her work on health precarity and migrant work, and the 2021 National Communication Association, Health Communication Division’s, Early Career Award.