Danny Valdez
Associate Professor · School of Public Health-Bloomington · Indiana University--Bloomington
Quick answer: Danny Valdez is Associate Professor at Indiana University--Bloomington. Danny Valdez shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Dr. Valdez is currently accepting doctoral students with a background or interest in applied social media mining, digital health, and associated analytics.
Research interests
Dr. Valdez is a big data scientist, primarily leveraging social media data and computational informatics algorithms to study, visualize, and interpret applied health behaviors, including mental health markers from social media data, persuasive digital marketing, sexual health attitudes, and misinformation's effect on positive health outcomes.
Selected publications (since 2023)
Valdez, D., Soto-Vásquez, A. D., & Montenegro, M. S. (2023). Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media: Online insights from an English/Spanish natural language processing (NLP) analysis of vaccine-related tweets. Social Science & Medicine, 339, 116365.
Rao, V. K., Valdez, D., Muralidharan, R., Agley, J., Eddens, K. S., Dendukuri, A., ... & Parker, M. A. (2024). Digital epidemiology of prescription drug references on x (formerly twitter): Neural network topic modeling and sentiment analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e57885.
Russell, A. M., Valdez, D., Wang, M., Allem, J. P., Bergman, B. G., Kelly, J. F., ... & Massey, P. M. (2025). Content analysis of substance use disorder recovery discourse on Twitter: From personal recovery narratives to marketing of addict
Frequently asked questions
Is Danny Valdez hiring PhD students at Indiana University--Bloomington?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Danny Valdez's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Dr. Valdez is currently accepting doctoral students with a background or interest in applied social media mining, digital health, and associated analytics..
What does Danny Valdez research?
Dr. Valdez is a big data scientist, primarily leveraging social media data and computational informatics algorithms to study, visualize, and interpret applied health behaviors, including mental health markers from social media data, persuasive digital marketing, sexual health attitudes, and misinfor
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
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