Omaya Torres

Omaya (she/her) is a Senior Research Coordinator/Research Fellow in the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Climate Communication Division and a joint research fellow in the Communication Neuroscience Lab of the Annenberg School for Communication and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. She graduated with her B.A. in Health and Societies at the University of Pennsylvania and her Master of Public Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. She also has a background in visual arts, which she hopes to combine with her passion for public health through exploration of visual health communication strategies. Her current research projects include the GeoScan Smoking Study and various community engagement projects under the Climate Communication Division. She hopes to facilitate public engagement with the lab's research by using visual health communication to make the research more broadly accessible.