Lillie Williamson

Lillie Williamson is Assistant Professor of Communication Science at UW–Madison, examining racial health inequalities through medical mistrust frameworks. Her NSF-funded project investigates science misinformation in Black communities. Research addresses COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, clinical trust dynamics, and health policy impacts.

She co-developed the Ecological Medical Mistrust Antecedents (EMMA) model and studies community trust erosion in the American South.