Dr. Amy Bleakley is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on creating and testing theory-based health messaging. Dr. Bleakley has worked on messaging projects about sugary drink consumption, sun protection, and encouraging health care visits to support cognitive health. She also studies youth and media, specifically investigating media effects on adolescent health risk behaviors as well as general media use among youth and entertainment media content. Risk behaviors of interest include sexual behavior, alcohol use, STD/HIV prevention, and obesity-related behaviors. Dr. Bleakley has methodological and statistical expertise in survey research and structural equation modeling, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Children and Media and the Journal of Sex Research. Dr. Bleakley’s research has been published in numerous academic journals, including American Journal of Public Health, Pediatrics, JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine), Journal of Sex Research, Journal of Health Communication, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. She received her master’s of public health and PhD in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University.