Fuentes-Lara, C., Poch-Butler, S. L., Moreno, Á., Jiménez-Sánchez, L. & Zurro-Antón, N. (11–15 September 2024). Social Media as a Source of Misinformation: Challenges for Health Information [oral communication]. EUPRERA 2024 congress, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Fuentes-Lara, C., Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Moreno, Á., Zurro-Antón, N. & Zeler, I. (11–15 September 2024). Influential Social Media Platforms and Health Hazards. Tensions Between Attitudes Forward Tanning and Photoprotection Skin Cancer in Spain [oral communication]. EUPRERA 2024 congress, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
Fuentes-Lara, C., Moreno, Á. & Zurro-Antón, N. (28–30 June 2023). The analysis of the attitudes of Spanish society towards photoprotection and skin cancer on Twitter [oral communication]. XVII International Congress on Public Relations Research (AIRP), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain.
Fuentes-Lara, C. (21 June 2022). Innovation and research Soludable. Comunicancer Project [oral communication]. II Soludable Meeting
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Fuentes-Lara, C. & Moreno, Á. (12–14 June, 2024). The influence of social media on the tanning and photoprotection attitudes of young Spanish university students [oral communication]. XVIII International Congress on Public Relations Research (AIRP), Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Zurro-Antón, N. & Zeler, I. (12-14 June, 2024). Sun exposure and skin cancer: an analysis of prevention communication on Instagram in a high-risk context [oral communication]. XVIII International Congress on Public Relations Research (AIRP), Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Zurro-Antón, N. & Moreno, Á. (19 April 2024). Comunicancer: predictive model of sunburn [oral communication]. Soludable Meeting 2024, University of Malaga, Andalucia, Spain.
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Moreno, Á. & Zeler, I. (28–30 June 2023). Communication for the prevention of skin cancer: an analysis of the use of Facebook for health communication in Spain [oral communication]. XVII International Congress on Public Relations Research (AIRP), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain.
Jiménez-Sánchez, L. & Moreno, Á. (29 April 2023). Communication to prevent skin cancer: an analysis of the strategic use of the social media Twitter in Spain [oral communication]. II International Congress of Communication and Health (CICyS), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Moreno, Á. & Zeler, I. (14-16 Mayo 2025) Strategic communication in health: Testing actual effectiveness of communication for skin cancer prevention in Spain. ECREA OSC Conference 2025, University of Cagliari, Italy.
Moreno, Á. (30 June – 04 July, 2024). The role of media in the context of a health emergency: Cáncer coverage in the mainstream Spanish press [oral communication]. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2024, Whiria Te Tāngata. Weaving people together, Chirstchurch, New Zeeland.
Moreno, Á. & Jiménez-Sánchez, L. (20–24 June, 2024). Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer: An Analysis of Communications for Prevention on Instagram in a High-Risk Context [oral communication]. 74th Annual Congress of the International Communication Association (ICA), Communication and Global Human Rights, Gold Coast, Australia.
Moreno, A. (20–24 June, 2024) (Chair) Online Community, Social Media, and Mental Health, Standard Paper Session, Health Communication. Session at the Health Communication Division 74th Annual ICA Conference. Communication and Global Human Rights, GoldCoast, Australia.
Moreno, Á., Jiménez-Sánchez, L. & Zeler, I. (5-8 July, 2023). Strategic communication in online health. Communicating the prevention of skin cancer in Spain [oral communication]. ECREA OSC 2023, Autonomous University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Moreno, Á. (16-17 June, 2023). GEM Strategic Health Communication. Comunicancer Project, Presentation of the Board of Directors meeting XIV GEM Symposium, Cartagena.
Moreno, Á. (21 April, 2023). Comunicancer Project: Why Aren’t Young People Protected? Barriers to photoprotection [oral communication]. Soludable Meeting 2023.
Moreno, Á., Blázquez, N., & Fuentes-Lara, C. (10 September, 2022). Last summer. Workshop on habits, knowledge and attitudes of risk in the face of sun exposure and skin cancer [oral communication]. Health Week. Healthy University of the Rey Juan Carlos University, online.
Moreno, Á., Soria, A., de Troya, M., & Moreno, R. (4 April, 2022). The dark side of the sun. Risks of sun exposure and strategies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer [oral communication]. Health Week. Healthy University of the Rey Juan Carlos University, online.
Moreno, Á. (22 October, 2022). Social media and photoprevention [oral communication]. Soludable Meeting.
Poch-Butler, S. L., Moreno, Á. & Zurro-Antón, N. (21-24 September 2022). World Health Organization communication strategies on social media [oral communication]. EUPRERA Congress 2022, University of Vienna and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.
Poch-Butler, S. L., Moreno, Á., Fuentes-Lara, C., Navarro, C., & Zurro-Antón, N. (21-24 September 2022). The World Health Organization’s Statement on Vaccination: An Analysis of Strategic Communication and Public Responses on Twitter [oral communication]. EUPRERA Congress 2022, Vienna, Austria.
Subert, A. (2-3 February 2024). High use of social media, high taste for tanning and high rates of sunburn in Spanish university students [oral communication]. 38th Meeting of the Spanish Photobiology Group. Costa del Sol University Hospital, Marbella, Malaga, Spain.
Subert, A., Rodríguez, A., Rivas, F., Blázquez, N., Fuentes-Lara, C., Soria, A., Moreno, Á. & de Troya, M. (May 10-13, 2023). Proposal of a communication strategy for the prevention of skin cancer based on the habits, attitudes and knowledge in photoprotection of Spanish university students [oral communication]. 50th National Congress of Dermatology and Venerology (AEDV), Palacio de Congresos, Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain.
Zurro-Antón, N., Humanes, ML & Saperas, E. (30 June, 2024). Realities and challenges of the dissemination of cancer in the written media: analysis from the fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goal 3 [oral communication]. IX Congress of the Spanish Association for Communication Research (AEIC), University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
Zurro-Antón, N., Moreno, Á., Soria, A. & de Troya, M. (21-24 September, 2022). Communication in Public Health Emergencies: Analysis of a Decade of Scientific Research in Crisis and Risk Communication [oral communication]. EUPRERA Congress 2022, University of Vienna and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.
Zurro-Antón, N., Moreno, Á. & Fuentes-Lara, C. (25-27 May, 2022). Communication of crises and risks in health: evolution of international research in the last decade [oral communication]. XVI International Congress of Research in Public Relations (AIRP), University of Cadiz, Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain.
Alcolea-Díaz, G., Zurro-Antón, N. & Cárcamo-Ulloa, L. (2024). News clutter in the Chilean and Spanish press: a comparison through thematic modelling. Journalism and Media, 5 (1), 148-162. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5010011
Fuentes-Lara, C., Zeler, I., Moreno, Á. & de Troya, M. (2024). Sun behavior: exploring the health belief model on skin cancer prevention in Spain. J Public Health (Berl.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-024-02335-7
Fuentes-Lara, C., Poch-Butler, S.L., Humanes, M.L. & Jiménez-Sánchez, L. (2024). Photoprotection and skin cancer on X/Twitter: analysis of misinformation, communicative challenges and attitudes in the Spanish community. Journalism and Media, 5(1), 432-443. https://doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5010028
García, A.C., Moreno, Á., Zurro-Antón, N., & Soria, A.(2025). Skin cancer prevention communication: A global bibliometric analysis of the literature from 2011 to 2021. Review of Communication Research, 13, 153-171. https://doi.org/10.52152/RCR.V13.12
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Moreno, A. & Fuentes-Lara, M. C. (2025). Redes sociales e influencia en la salud de los jóvenes: Un estudio sobre las actitudes de bronceado y fotoprotección en España. Palabra Clave, 28(Suplemento 1), e28s11x. https://doi.org/10.5294/pacla.2025.28.s1.1x
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Moreno, Á., & Fuentes-Lara, M. C. (2024). Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer: An Examination of Communications for Prevention on Instagram in a High-Risk Context. Profesional de la información, 33(3), e330307. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2024.0307
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., & Moreno, Á. (2023). Communication to prevent skin cancer: an analysis of the strategic use of the social network Twitter in Spain. Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información, 28, 190-205. https://doi.org/10.35742/rcci.2023.28.e289
Jiménez-Sánchez, L., Moreno, Á. & Zeler, I. (2023). Communication for skin cancer prevention: an analysis of the use of Facebook for health communication in Spain. Redmarka. Revista de Marketing Aplicado, 27(1), 78-94. https://doi.org/10.17979/redma.2023.27.1.9650
Zurro-Antón, N. (2024). Health communication. Analysis of the scientific production on crisis and emergency risks and the media representation of the epidemiological case of cancer. [Doctoral thesis]. King Juan Carlos University.
Zurro-Antón, N., Cárcamo-Ulloa, L. & Moreno, Á. (2023). Representation of cancer incidence and mortality in the Spanish press. Cuadernos.info, (57), 182-204. https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.57.65203
Zurro-Antón, N., Moreno, Á. & Humanes, M. L. (2023). CERC as a growing research model: analysis of its application in health emergency communication strategies over the last decade. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 29(2), 395-405. https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/esmp.85911
Lara Jiménez Sánchez, member of the research team has been awarded for her Master’s Thesis with data from the Comunicancer project.
Award in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN, specifically, this Master’s Thesis contributes to SDG 3, Health and Wellbeing.
Work directed by our PI Ángeles Moreno within the framework of the Master’s Degree in Applied Communication Research at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Master directed by the professor and member of the project Enric Saperas.
Noelia Zurro-Antón, member of the research team, obtained her PhD with an exceptional thesis within the framework of the Comunicancer 🎓👏 research project. Thesis co-directed by the professors Ángeles Moreno, PI of the project, and María Luisa Humanes, member of the research team.
📖 “Health Communication. Analysis of the scientific production on crisis and emergency risks and the media representation of the epidemiological case of cancer”.
This milestone not only represents a great personal achievement for Noelia, but also reinforces the impact and quality of our research. Her dedication and effort have been fundamental to the advancement of our work, and we are enormously proud of her.
Finally, we would like to express our sincere thanks to the tribunal members Carmen Carretón, Antonio Castillo Esparcia and Manuel Martínez Nicolás for their valuable time, comments and guidance during the defence.
The executive summary of the Comunicancer R&D&I project includes the main milestones achieved by the team.
This document has been presented in several meetings with the issuers of preventive communication of skin cancer in Spain as part of the knowledge transfer plan developed within the framework of the project.
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