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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA PhD 05/2014 Communication
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI MS 08/2021 Information
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) 2023 - 2025 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
International Communication Association 2016 Gene Burd Outstanding Dissertation in Journalism Studies Award (runner-up)

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Eileen Le Han is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF. She is interested in using tobacco industry documents and social media data to study the misleading claims about tobacco products. Recently, she is looking at misinformation about tobacco-related products and policies and the information needs of Asian American and immigrant populations in California. Her overall research aim is to reduce health disparities through improving health information literacy among priority populations.

She received her PhD in Communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. During and after her PhD studies, she mainly conducted qualitative research about social media, with a focus on social activism. She published a book about social media, collective memory, and activism in China, which was an expansion of her dissertation research. Since then, she has been expanding her research to look at social media in many other contexts, including health and medicine, in which she is primarily interested in the use and understanding of expertise and authority in the digital age. She also received a MS degree in Information from the University of Michigan, where she had trainings in library science.

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  1. Building an analytical framework for tobacco-related information on social media: an exploratory analysis with generative AI assistance. BMC Public Health. 2025; (25):3635. Han, E; Feng, M; Ling, P. View Publication.
  2. Building an analytical framework for tobacco-related information on social media: an exploratory analysis with generative AI assistance. BMC Public Health. 2025 Oct 28; 25(1):3635. Han E, Feng M, Ling P. PMID: 41152851; PMCID: PMC12570755.
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  3. Tobacco industry influence on breast cancer research, policy and public opinion: scoping the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents. Tob Control. 2025 Apr 23. Han E, Crosbie E, Ling P, Perez S, Khan H, Hiatt R, Kearns C. PMID: 40268402; PMCID: PMC12341490.
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  4. Concerns Over Vuse e-Cigarette Digital Marketing and Implications for Public Health Regulation: Content Analysis. JMIR Form Res. 2024 12 27; 8:e54661. Han E, Lempert LK, Vescia F, Halpern-Felsher B. PMID: 39760165; PMCID: PMC11701674.
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  5. Identifying Topics Around Nicotine Gum: A Machine Learning Approach with Twitter Data. Substance Use & Misuse. 2024. Eileen Han, Manan Biyani, Mary Hrywna, Scott I Donaldson, Jon-Patrick Allem. View Publication.
  6. Identifying Topics Around Nicotine Gum: A Machine Learning Approach with Twitter Data. Subst Use Misuse. 2025; 60(3):430-435. Han E, Biyani M, Hrywna M, Donaldson SI, Allem JP. PMID: 39520290.
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  7. Discussion of Heated Tobacco Products on Twitter Following IQOS's Modified-Risk Tobacco Product Authorization and US Import Ban: Content Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2024 10 24; 26:e53938. Kim M, Vassey J, Li D, Galimov A, Han E, Kirkpatrick MG, Stanton CA, Ozga JE, Lee S, Unger JB. PMID: 39446431; PMCID: PMC11544331.
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  8. Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry’s endgame. BMJ Global Health. 2024; e013866(9). Yogi Hale Hendlin, Elieen Le Han, Pamela M. Ling. View Publication.
  9. Tobacco, nicotine and counter-marketing promotions using Instagram’s branded content tool. Tobacco Control. 2024. Linnea Laestadius, Kelsey Van Hoorn, Julia Vassey, Jenny Ozga, Cassandra Stanton, Dongmei Li, Eileen Han, Daniel Romer. View Publication.
  10. GitHub as a collaborative curation platform for memory projects of COVID-19 in China. Information, Communication & Society. 2023; 26. Eileen Le Han. . View Publication.
  11. COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Discussion on Twitter: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2021 06 29; 23(6):e24435. Lyu JC, Han EL, Luli GK. PMID: 34115608; PMCID: PMC8244724.
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  12. Journalism and mnemonic practices in Chinese social media: Remembering catastrophic events on Weibo. Memory Studies. 2020; 13(2):162-175. Eileen Le Han. . View Publication.
  13. Weibo and the making of Chinese networked publics: Witness, debates and expertise. Communication and the Public. 2018; 3(2):97-112. Eileen Le Han. . View Publication.
  14. Slogans and Slurs, Misogyny and Nationalism: A Case Study of Anti-Japanese Sentiment by Chinese Netizens in Contentious Social Media Comments. International Journal of Communication. 2018; 12:1988-2009. Jason Q Ng, Eileen Le Han. .
  15. Micro-blogging memories: Weibo and collective remembering in contemporary China. 2016. Eileen Le Han. .
  16. “Lucky cloud” over the world: The journalistic discourse of nationalism beyond China in the Beijing Olympics global torch relay. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 2011; 28(4):275-291. Le Han. . View Publication.

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