Title(s): Associate Professor
Department: Community and Behavioral Health
Office: N412 CPHB
Phone: (319) 335-6867
Natoshia M. Askelson is an Associate Professor in the College of Public Health, Department of Community & Behavioral Health. She currently serves as the PI for Iowa’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network Collaborating Center and Deputy Director of the Prevention Research Center. Dr. Askelson is a member of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, where she serves as the interim Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement. She is also the director of the Research and Evaluation Core at the Institute of Public Health Practice, Research, and Policy . She is trained as a behavioral scientist with an emphasis in health communication. Her research is focused on maternal, child and family health, with an emphasis on elementary-aged children and adolescents. She uses mixed methods to understand how policy and program changes influence positive and maladaptive behavior.
Courses Taught
- CBH:5305 Evaluation I: Approaches and Application
- CBH:5310 Qualitative Research for Public Health
- CPH:3800 Public Health Theories and Society
Research Interests
- Intersection of health policy and behavior change
- Family and child health
- Health communication
- Evaluation
Background
Affiliations
In the News
- College of Public Health announces the Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy
- Dental Health Is Public Health
- Askelson receives Associate Professor Advancement Award
- Askelson named HCCC interim associate director of community outreach and engagement
- Natoshia Askelson discusses the Healthy Behaviors Incentive Program
- Askelson comments on decision-making and vaccine hesitancy
- PRC collaborates on new COVID-19 vaccine campaign
- Campaign encourages COVID-19 vaccinations in Iowa communities
- Askelson: One-on-one communication critical for COVID vaccine uptake
- Survey gauges COVID-19 vaccine interest among adolescents, parents
- Food, Alcohol & the Pandemic
- Cancer centers nationwide urge getting HPV vaccines back on schedule
- Askelson leads project to improve Iowa’s COVID-19 vaccination rates
- UI to promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Iowa’s small and mid-sized communities
- Q&A: Addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
- Iowa researchers receive $2.5M to study immunization-related issues
- Researchers say COVID-19 messaging for youth needs improvement
- Study finds Medicaid program’s requirements communicated ineffectively
- UI receives CDC grant to continue cancer prevention research
- Renewed funding for UI Prevention Research Center expands focus on health disparities in rural communities
- Askelson reflects on the evaluation of Iowa’s 1115 Waiver
- Askelson comments on HPV vaccine
- Iowa HPV vaccination rates lag other teen vaccines
- A Shot of Protection
- UI research improves school lunches for Iowa K–12 students
- Schools participate in Healthy Schools-Healthy Student project
- Iowa researchers co-author CPCRN report on colorectal cancer screening interventions
- Iowa schools participate in Healthy Schools-Healthy Students project
- Askelson to lead panel on school meals March 21
- Article on Iowa’s Medicaid expansion selected as editor’s pick for 2017
- UI joins other groups to study HPV-vaccine use
- UI to study HPV vaccine disparities in rural areas
- Iowa research finds few Medicaid members participate in the state’s incentive program
- Askelson tapped to lead UI cancer prevention program
- Askelson comments on closing of Planned Parenthood health centers
- Askelson comments on proposed defunding of Planned Parenthood
- Askelson comments on school start times
- Askelson discusses student-led Smarter Lunchrooms
- Askelson takes part in Communicating Ideas workshop
- Students help create ‘Smarter Lunchrooms’
- Helping high school students to eat better
- Giving kids a taste for healthy foods