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Currently, Dr. Burke-Garcia is a program area director in the Public Health Department at NORC at the University of Chicago where she directs the How Right Now/Que Hacer Ahora campaign, which is aimed at increasing people’s ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of her career, Dr. Burke-Garcia has spearheaded some of the most innovative communication programs and studies on a variety of health topics including investigating perspectives and motivations of non-vaccinating online influencers, designing a targeted intervention with social media influencers to help lower their readers' risk for breast cancer, and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. Her book entitled, Influencing Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Online Influencers, was released in 2019 by Routledge Press. She has been named to VeryWellHealth.com’s list of 10 Modern Female Innovators Shaking Up Health Care and was also named as Diverse Health Hub’s Woman of the Week. She holds a PhD in Communication from George Mason University, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture, and Technology from Georgetown University, and a joint honours Bachelor’s degree in International Development Studies and Humanistic Studies from McGill University.