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Course Overview

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Saturday, November 15, 2014 : 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

Aline Gubrium, PhD , Public Health, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
In the course overview I review the agenda for the day and provide background on the history and uses of digital storytelling methods in public health. I describe a narrative approach to health promotion, theoretical underpinnings to this approach (including narrative theory and culture-based approaches to health research and promotion), and situate the digital storytelling approach as a transdisciplinary method.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related education
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe overview for the day Describe rationale for using digital storytelling in public health research, advocacy, health promotion, and strategic communications

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I bring extensive experience in participatory and narrative-based research methodologies to public health. I has extensive research experience using digital storytelling, including a current Ford Foundation-funded digital storytelling project focused on research, training and strategic communications around sexual health, rights, and justice with young parenting Puerto Rican Latinas, and a NICHD-funded (R21) project
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 1006.0: The Ethics and Practice of Digital Storytelling as a Community-Based Participatory Approach in Public Health -- Fee: $300