Marie Haverfield

Dr. Marie Haverfield is a faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection between relationships and health. She uses mixed methods to examine features and processes of communication across a range of health contexts from the interpersonal to policy levels. 

Current Projects

Physician Disclosure in ICU Family Visits

In coordination with colleagues at Duke University and through collaboration with a team of student research assistants, instances of physician disclosure (sharing of personal information) have been extracted from over 100 ICU family visits. We are now in the process of identifying associations between disclosure and care experience among race and gender concordant and discordant physician-family dyads. We are not actively recruiting students for this project. 

Relationship-centered Care and Cultural Sensitivity

We are preparing to conduct interviews with Latine and Vietnamese patients, caregivers, and community health champions to determine how relationship-centered care (the perceived partnership developed between clinicians, patients, and caregivers) manifests among non-Western, egalitarian belief systems and values. Findings from this study will inform a more culturally sensitive adaptation to the relationship-centered care framework and inform future relationship-centered care communication interventions. We are actively recruiting student research assistants for this project.

Student Research Assistants