Graphic Public Health

by Meredith Li-Vollmer

  • Penn State University Press
  • 2022
  • ISBN: 0271093250
  • 192 pages
  • WorldCat
Graphic Public Health Book Cover - A comics anthology and Road Map by Meredith Li-Vollmer
About the Book

As we confront the challenges of emerging diseases, environmental health threats, and gaps in health equity, medical professionals need versatile communication tools that help people make informed decisions and engage them in constructive conversations about the health of their communities. This book illuminates the power of comics to meet that need. Each chapter focuses on the use of graphic public health in the context of four specific goals: health literacy, risk communication, health promotion, and advocacy. Li-Vollmer also includes guidance for practitioners getting started in creating comics for any form of public information, and especially for public health. ebook icon Audio book icon
Meredith Li-Vollmer
About the Author

Meredith Li-Vollmer is a communications specialist at Public Health – Seattle & King County and clinical assistant professor in Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She has served in national capacities in the public health field for organizations including the National Academies, the National Association for County and City Health Officials, and the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins. Meredith is also a cartoonist and on the board of Short Run Comix and Arts. Her comics have been published in The Stranger, MUTHA, Illustrated PEN, and the American Journal of Public Health, and she has presented talks on public health comics at San Diego Comic-Con, Emerald City Comic-Con, and the Comics & Medicine conference. She received a doctorate in communications from the University of Washington.

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