On behalf of the editorial team at Frontiers in Communication's Research Topic, I invite submissions to a special issue on "Harnessing Social Media and Digital Technologies to Improve Health Communication” *About this Research Topic (special issue): Advancements in information and communication technologies offer a variety of opportunities for public health researchers and practitioners, from rapidly disseminating health information and engaging patients and the public for health promotion, to reaching out to underserved populations for health interventions and education. In the last decade, academic references on use of technologies for behavioral and social medicines has become prolific in a wide range of literatures. Along with the exponential growth in mobile, internet and social media technologies, leveraging scientific principles, theories, and research methods is key to effectively harnessing these technologies and media environments for public health impact. Multidisciplinary methods are critical and rigorous, scientific approaches will help generate replicable and reproducible research outcomes. Under the Research Topic theme, entitled “Harnessing Social Media and Digital Technologies to Improve Health Communication” of Frontiers in Communication, we are looking for papers on the topic of technologies and health communication, broadly conceptualized and inclusive of diverse theoretical approaches and multidisciplinary methodologies with the following key questions: • How do we leverage social media, digital technology, and big data to improve health communication research? • How can researchers translate empirical evidence, theoretical frameworks, and scientific methods to engage health populations of interest for behavioral change in the new media landscape? To read the full call for papers please visit: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9865/harnessing-social-media-and... We welcome contributions that present original empirical work; conceptual or theoretical analyses; meta-analyses; systematic reviews; or unique visions and perspectives. We encourage multidisciplinary scholarly contributions that come from diverse disciplines such as communications, information science, public health, behavioral medicine, population health, cancer prevention and control, addiction, technologies, data science, and computational social science. For more information please contact the Topic Editors: Dr. Sunny Jung Kim, Virginia Commonwealth University (Sun.Jung.Kim@vcuhealth.org) Dr. Bernard Fuemmeler, Virginia Commonwealth University (Bernard.Fuemmeler@vcuhealth.org) Dr. Danielle Jake-Schoffman, University of Florida (djakeschoffman@ufl.edu) -------------------------------------------------------- Sunny Jung Kim, Ph.D., M.S., M.A. Assistant Professor Department of Health Behavior and Policy Associate Member of VCU Massey Cancer Center School of Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University Email: Sun.Jung.Kim@vcuhealth.org<mailto:Sun.Jung.Kim@vcuhealth.org> Office: 804-628-4688 Fax: 804-828-5440 Online: Sunny Jung Kim@vcu<https://medschool.vcu.edu/expertise/detail.html?id=sjkim2> Twitter: @SunnyJungKim<https://twitter.com/SunnyJungKim>