International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a medical anthropologist with training in public health. My focus is on gathering stories from a range of groups and individuals who experience and/or are addressing an identified health issue. I use a 'partial PAR' (participatory action research) model to bring together various stakeholders' voice that combines community-based academic research. My latest work, in Angola and Vietnam, entails bringing together representatives from a wide range of disciplines and fields, looking to find new ways to bring the insights and mehods of the arts and humanities to bear on global public health issues. Colleagues and I are especially interested in naratives told through photo elicitation, photovoice and art forms to carry stories that can provoke change in understanding and behaviour.