Dr Shaunak Sastry, is Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati and Director of The Cincinnati Project, a center for community-engaged research.

His research and teaching interests are in the areas of health and culture, globalization and health, and the cultural politics of infectious diseases. His work combines ethnographic and field-based methods with critical analysis of public discourses of health.

His work has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals like Human Communication Research, Health Communication, Communication Theory, Journal of Health Communication, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Frontiers in Communication, and Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, in addition to several book chapters and more than 40 paper presentations at national and international conferences.

He is a senior editor of the journal Health Communication and sits on the editorial boards of several other academic journals. He is the Chair of the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Research Council and is immediate past-chair of the Asian and Pacific American Caucus at NCA. He is an inductee of the 2024-2045 Provostal Fellow Program.