Defining the Landscape: The Case for Poetry in Public Health Research
Oct 17, 2024 3:30-4:30pm Eastern
In this interactive webinar, Gray Davidson Carroll, MPH, and Jill Sonke, PhD, will present their co-authored research brief, “What Do You See Here? Data Poems as Community Poems”. This brief was written as part of the One Nation/One Project initiative and Arts for EveryBody campaign, and includes a collection of twelve poems written in collaboration with nine communities across the country participating in the initiative. Following the presentation, there will be a discussion and Q&A period on the role and potential of poetry in public health research.
To conclude the webinar, participants will be invited to engage in a generative writing exercise facilitated by Gray Davidson Carroll, exploring their relationship to place and self.
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Speakers
Gray Davidson Carroll, MPH
Gray Davidson Carroll is a transfemme writer, educator, public health researcher and (self-proclaimed) hot chocolate connoisseur. They are the author of the poetry chapbook Waterfall of Thanks (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and their work has further appeared or is forthcoming in The Common, new words {press}, Sage Journals and Frontiers in Medicine and Door = Jar. They have received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets, The Good Listening Project, Columbia University and elsewhere. Originally from western Massachusetts, they currently live in Brooklyn, where they are pursuing a poetry MFA at NYU.
Jill Sonke, PhD
Jill Sonke, PhD, is Director of Research Initiatives in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), Director of National Research and Impact for the One Nation/One Project initiative, and US Director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London. She serves on the steering committee for the Jameel Arts & Health Lab and served during the COVID-19 pandemic as a senior advisor to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She an affiliated faculty member in the UF School of Theatre & Dance, the Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, and the Center for African Studies, as well as an editorial board member for Health Promotion Practice journal. Dr. Sonke is a dancer and a musician, a mixed methods researcher, and has 28 years of leadership in the field of arts in health. She is the recipient of numerous awards and over 350 grants for her programs and research in the arts and health.