Kristen Alley Swain is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. Her research focuses on science and risk communication, with an emphasis on framing and social amplification of risk in news coverage about health and environmental issues. Her recent grant work has explored crisis communication strategies, big data analysis of misleading health news and natural disasters, scientific explanation in controversial stories, HIV prevention in black churches, and public communication about climate change, environmental justice, bioterrorism and toxic freight spills.