Dr. Warren Bareiss studies relationships among health, communication, and culture. His analysis of self-injury in films was awarded Top Paper, Southern States Communication Association Gender Studies Division in 2015, and a later version was published by the Journal of Medical Humanities. His analysis of U.S. press coverage of adolescent self-injury was published in Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. He earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University and a master's from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He also earned a postdoctoral graduate certificate in health communication from the Arnold School for Public Health and the School of Journalism at the University of South Carolina. In 2015, Dr. Bareiss developed a Health Communication minor at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He teaches mass communication theory, research methods, health communication, and international media.