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NORC at the University Chicago

Chandler C. Carter

Research Scientist
Public Health
Social Data Collaboratory
Chandler is a mixed-methods researcher specializing in the analysis of social media and survey data.

Chandler has over seven years of experience conducting quantitative and mixed-methods social media and survey research, with extensive experience leading social media content analyses. Her research portfolio spans a range of public health topics, including social media's influence on tobacco use; surveillance of tobacco product promotion and prevention campaigns on social media; body image and eating disorders; and vaccination attitudes, behaviors, and misinformation; as well as gun attitudes and gun violence. 

Chandler has contributed to several tobacco control studies, including an e-cigarette prevention campaign grant supported by the National Cancer Institute where she serves as the research task lead. Additionally, she is the deputy project director for the Monitoring Respiratory Immunizations & Related Attitudes Among Adults study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Prior to joining NORC, Chandler worked as a graduate research assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she conducted content analyses and survey experiments to explore the impact of social media on mental health, body image, and health behaviors. She also has experience in market research, supporting survey and focus group studies aimed at understanding media consumption habits and health information-seeking behaviors.

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Expertise

Education

MA

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BA

Brown University

Honors & Awards

Roy H. Park Master's Fellow | 2018

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Project Contributions

Assessing the Effects of Cigar Promotion on Social Media

The first comprehensive study to examine the effects of social media promotion of cigars on tobacco and marijuana use

Funder:

National Cancer Institute

Assessing the Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Influencer Marketing in the Rapidly Changing Media Environment

The first comprehensive study to examine the effects of social media promotion of smokeless tobacco use among rural and urban populations

Funder:

National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration

Developing a Supervised Model of Online COVID Vaccine Information

Examining AI biases in model development to accurately detect and classify online COVID-19 vaccine information

Client:

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Growing Up with Guns Study

The first nationally representative longitudinal survey of youth and young adults on exposure to firearm violence

Client:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

MacArthur Safety & Justice Challenge Evaluation

Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge to reduce jail populations across the U.S.

Client:

MacArthur Foundation

Monitoring Respiratory Immunizations & Related Attitudes Among Adults

Keeping a real-time measure of COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations among adults in the U.S.

Client:

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Network-Driven COVID-19 Prevention (RADx-UP)

Randomized control trials to evaluate network-based approaches to promote COVID-19 prevention

Client:

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Network-Driven COVID-19 Prevention (RADx-UP)

Randomized control trials to evaluate network-based approaches to promote COVID-19 prevention

Client:

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Social Media’s Influence on Flavored Tobacco Use

Investigation of youth-targeted flavored tobacco promotion on social media to inform regulatory decisions

Client:

National Institute on Drug Abuse; Food & Drug Administration

Using Innovative Machine Learning to Detect Support and Opposition to E-Cigarette Use Prevention Messaging on Twitter and TikTok

First study to examine the content, sources, and patterns of diffusion of E-cigarette prevention campaigns

Client:

National Cancer Institute

Publications

Research Library & Findings