About Me:
My colleagues and I use a multi-method tool for exploring the experience of health and place and for communicating this experience to a diverse set of actors who share a common goal of addressing health disparities. We combine participatory photography, focus groups and GIS. Using PPM together with spatial and demographic data allows us to uncover both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of a variety of concepts linking environment and active living. This will permit us to better understand different environmental correlates that will help inform policy and design interventions.
Area(s) of Training
applied anthropology, public health
Area(s) of Expertise
Qualitative Research in Public Health using GIS
Current Area of Employment
Research
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If you are around on Wednesday of the 2008 SfAA meetings, please consider coming to this session, an open forum organized on behalf of the Public Policy committee, to participate and help support the cause of education in public policy engagement.
(W-41) WEDNESDAY 12:00-1:30
Heritage II
Open Forum on Uses of Language in Public Policy
CHAIR: HEYMAN, Josiah (U Texas-El Paso)
The focus will be the ways that formal, policy oriented language articulates with communities, scholars, and other language communities in the policy process (that is, it is not a forum on the policy of language, but the language of policy).
See you in Memphis,
Joe Heyman