Rate My Professor Mohan Dutta

Professor Mohan J. Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication at Massey University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE). He joined Massey University in 2018. He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota (2001), an MA from North Dakota State University (2001), and a Bachelor of Technology (Honours) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1995). Prior to his appointment at Massey, Professor Dutta held positions at Purdue University, including Associate Dean of Research in the College of Liberal Arts and Founding Director of the Center for Poverty and Health Inequities, and at the National University of Singapore, where he served as Head of the Department of Communications and New Media, Provost Chair Professor, and Founding Director of CARE.

His research focuses on the culture-centered approach to health communication, examining marginalization, poverty and health, participatory strategies for social change, and de-centering Eurocentric knowledge structures through subaltern participation. Professor Dutta has secured over $4 million in research funding for culture-centered projects addressing health inequities among indigenous communities, migrant workers, and other marginalized groups. He has authored books including Communicating Health: A Culture-Centered Approach (Polity Press) and Communicating Social Change: Structure, Culture, Agency (Taylor & Francis), and has published extensively in journals such as Communication Theory and Health Communication. He received the 2016 International Communication Association Applied/Public Policy Communication Research Award and the 2018 Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award. Professor Dutta serves on the Advisory Panel of the World Health Organization Cultural Contexts of Health group and as Editor of the Global Health Communication Book Series.