OTD Student Explores How the Arts can Improve Public Health Campaigns

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is an urgent need for more effective approaches to connect people from varying cultures and communities to public health solutions in ways that are accessible, helpful, and meaningful.

In this Issues in Brief from the Pardee School of Global Studies, Marial Williams, a Sargent student in the doctor of occupational therapy program and Pardee Graduate Fellow, posits that community engagement through the arts can be a means of improving future public health campaigns. She presents two foundational methodologies — the Culture of Health framework and the Multisensory Multilevel Health Education Model — and explores the ways in which the framework and model can leverage the arts, culture, and community to improve public health initiatives in the future.

Read more in Engaging Communities Through the Arts: A Proposed Framework and Model in Public Health Initiatives.