{"id":14780,"date":"2018-11-16T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2018-11-16T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:45:53","slug":"teaching-public-health-with-graphic-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/11\/16\/teaching-public-health-with-graphic-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Public Health with Graphic Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Health is a broad set of actions that promote wellness, but a lot of people don\u2019t understand what public health does for us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can graphic medicine (comics and graphic novels with health, wellness and disease themes) help us better understand public health? \u00a0Spoiler Alert: the answer is yes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are a few examples of how graphic medicine tackles the complexities of public health:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching pandemic preparedness. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Public Health Department of Seattle and King County (WA) created <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/health\/emergency-preparedness\/preparing-yourself\/pandemic-flu\/comic.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Ordinary Flu<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to educate about the deadly 1918 flu outbreak and teach readers ways they can stay healthy and prepare for future pandemics. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No Ordinary Flu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is available for free download in 23 languages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC created <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/resource-center\/freeresources\/graphic-novel\/junior-detectives-print-home.pdf\">Junior Disease Detectives-Operation: Outbreak<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>to educate students about why disease outbreaks occur, how immune response works, and the role of the CDC.\u00a0 <em>Junior Disease Detectives\u00a0<\/em>helps kids understand the immune response by using metaphors, like defending a castle, that are easy for them to understand.\u00a0 The comic also shows how the CDC investigates and responds to disease outbreaks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whit Taylor is a cartoonist with a background in public health.\u00a0 She wrote and drew <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenib.com\/america-ready-pandemic?id=whit-taylor&amp;t=author\">America Isn\u2019t Ready for a Pandemic. \u00a0Here\u2019s How it Could Happen<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to help people understand<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0pandemic planning and the social and political conditions that could allow an outbreak to happen here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educating on the science behind public health principles.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/makinaro.myportfolio.com\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maki Naro<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an artist who describes his work as \u201cfan art for Science\u201d, created the comic <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenib.com\/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0?id=maki-naro&amp;t=author\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaccines Work<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to teach the history of vaccines, how they protect communities, and to debunk some of the most common anti-vaccine myths. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Telling the history of public health to understand the present.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taylor also created the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenib.com\/tuskegee-experiment?id=whit-taylor&amp;t=author\">Tuskegee Experiment<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>comic to educate the public on the extremely unethical experiment undertaken by the United States Public Health Service from 1932-1973 in Alabama. In this comic, she also shows how this incident in history still influences the interactions between the medical and public health communities and many black communities leading to poorer health outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn more about Graphic Medicine visit the NLM\u2019s website for the traveling exhibit\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived, Well-Drawn<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 Or request a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/ner\/guides\/graphic-medicine-book-club-kits\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graphic Medicine Book Club Kit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for your library, school or community group to try.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health is a broad set of actions that promote wellness, but a lot of people don\u2019t understand what public health does for us. \u00a0 Can graphic medicine (comics and graphic novels with health, wellness and disease themes) help us better understand public health? \u00a0Spoiler Alert: the answer is yes! Here are a few examples&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2018\/11\/16\/teaching-public-health-with-graphic-medicine\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,275],"tags":[248,257,265,110,193],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-graphic-medicine","tag-community-engagement","tag-community-of-interest","tag-graphic-medicine","tag-health-literacy","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14787,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}