St. Mary's Hall S451
Telephone: 617-552-4988
Email: ashley.duggan@bc.edu
ORCID
Relationships in Health and Illness
Nonverbal Communication
Social Scientific Research Methods
Interpersonal Communication
Relationship science, human communication research, interpersonal communication, health communication, primary healthcare
Ashley Duggan, PhD, is Professor of Health Communication at Boston College and co-director of the BRANCH initiative - Building Research for Advanced Networks in Communication & Health). She holds a professional appointment in Family Medicine research at Tufts University School of Medicine and Fulbright Professor with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences. She earned her PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2003. She brings two decades of experience in research, teaching, and mentorship. Her research bridges theory, research methods, and capacity-building for relationship science and human communication in healthcare and medicine/medical education including completing the Building Research Capacity fellowship with the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the Association for Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM).
Duggan brings interdisciplinary leadership including multiple roles with the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), the National Communication Association (NCA), and the International Communication Association (ICA). Duggan was recently awarded the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research and the Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award for a monograph, awarded 2022 by the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. As a Fulbright scholar with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, she worked with the Centre for Positive Health Sciences to connect relationship science and human communication research with positive health sciences.
Duggan was the local host of IARR international conference in 2024. Her interdisciplinary leadership includes multiple roles with the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR), the National Communication Association (NCA), and the International Communication Association (ICA).
Articles and Book Chapters
Media Writing
Senior Fulbright Fellow in Medical Sciences / Medical Education (2023). Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Centre for Positive Health Sciences.
Tufts University School of Medicine. Department of Family Medicine. Director of Research Partnerships. Research Faculty. Department of Family Medicine.
Co-Director, BRANCH Initiative --Building Relationship science for Advanced Networks in Communication & Health. Co-Director with Bernard Ewigman, MD.
Faculty Affiliate, Larry A. Green Center. Advancing Primary Health Care for the Public Good.
Berscheid-Hatfield Distinguished Mid-Career Award (2022). International Association for Relationship Research (IARR).
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award for a monograph--- For my Health and Illness in Close Relationships monograph, Published by Cambridge University Press (2019). The Miller book award is given by the Interpersonal Division of the National Communication Association.
Fellow (2021-2022), Building Research Capacity in Family Medicine with the North American Primary Care Research Group and the Association for Departments of Family Medicine.