In 2019, she joined the University of Oregon to be Philip H. Knight Chair and the first permanent director of their Center for Science Communication Research.

She collaborated on the development of the affect heuristic and is a leading scholar in the study of numeracy in decision making including publishing Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers in 2020 with Oxford University Press.

Recently, she has written about evidence-based recommendations for communicating the impacts of climate change on health, including for an invited perspective at the New England Journal of Medicine.

[4] She is also an active member of the Lancet Countdown U.S. Brief Working Group[5] as it highlights key health threats posed by climate change and develops related policy recommendations.

She received an NIH Group Merit Award for exceptional advances in integrating cognitive, affective, and social processes into cancer control research,[14] and was the first American to win the Jane Beattie Scientific Recognition Award for innovative contributions to decision research.