Dr. Satveer Kaur-Gill studies the interpersonal, intergroup, structural, and socioecological processes of communication to understand health disparities and inequalities globally. A critical health communication scholar, Satveer conducts multimethod research approaches to understand and rectify the communicative inequalities facing communities that are underserved, minoritized, and marginalized from equitable access to healthcare they need. For example, some of Satveer’s projects include (a) health activism with precarious migrant workers facing health injustices in South and Southeast Asia (b) health meanings of communities facing financial and food insecurity (c) implicit and explicit bias during racially discordant patient-provider communication encounters, and (d) intersectional approaches to reproductive justice.
Satveer was awarded the 2016-2017 Yale Fox Fellowship, a 2019-2020 US ASEAN Fulbright for her work on health precarity and migrant work, and the 2021 National Communication Association, Health Communication Division’s, Early Career Award.
Representative Publications
Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2023). Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication, Inequality, and Transformation (eds). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
Kaur-Gill, S. (2022). The meanings of heart health among low-income Malay women in Singapore: narratives of food insecurity, caregiving stressors, and shame. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(2), 111-128.
Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2020). Negotiating the (im)mobility of domestic work: Communicative erasures, disrupted embodiments, and neoliberal Asia. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 13(2), 130-150.
Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2021). Structure as depressant: Theorizing narratives of mental health among migrant domestic workers. Health communication, 36(12), 1464-1475.
Kaur-Gill, S. (2020). The COVID-19 pandemic and outbreak inequality: Mainstream reporting of Singapore's migrant workers in the margins. Frontiers in Communication, 65.
Kaur-Gill, S., Pandi, A. R., & Dutta, M. J. (2021). Singapore’s national discourse on foreign domestic workers: Exploring perceptions of the margins. Journalism, 22(12), 2991-3012.
Kaur-Gill, S. (2023). The cultural customization of TikTok: Subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures. Media International Australia, 186(1), 29-47.
Teaching
Please email Dr. Kaur-Gill for more information on these courses.
Graduate
- Special Topics 988: Culture and Health Communication