Mohan Dutta

Mohan J. Dutta is a media expert, author and academic. He is the Dean's Chair Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University in New Zealand.

Dutta is most known for developing the Culture-Centered approach, addressing unequal health policies through culturally-based participatory strategies of radical democracy. His research explores community-led advocacy for universal health, activism around structural transformation, poverty's impact on health, global health policies' political economy, cultural tropes in neo-colonial health projects, and participatory culture-centered processes for global social change. He has authored journal articles, book chapters, and books including Communicating Health, Communicating Social Change, Voices of Resistance, and Neoliberal Health Organizing, in addition to serving as the co-editor of Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication, Reducing Health Disparities: Communication Interventions, and Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic. His contributions towards research and academia have earned him many awards including the Charles Redding Award for Excellence in Teaching, Gerald M Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship, Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication Award, Applied/Public Policy Communication Researcher Award, Charles H. Woolbert Award, and Aubrey Fisher Mentorship Award.

Dutta is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, Fellow of the International Communication Association and has held editorial roles such as Editor for the Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Senior Editor at Health Communication. He acts as a Series Editor for the Critical Cultural Studies in Global Health Communication book series at Routledge Press, and serves as a Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Communication.