The HPP Podcast Health Promotion Practice

In this episode, HPP’s Photovoice Special Issue Editors Dr. Robin Evans-Agnew & Dr. Bob Strack are in conversation with Dr. Mary Ann Burris, a co-founder of Photovoice. They discuss the origin story of Photovoice, including Caroline Wang’s awareness of power and her mother’s influence. They explore Dr. Mary Ann Burris’s career, and they compare their own journeys to contend with the definition of change as activist scholars.

This episode references the article titled “Braiding the Healing Gifts of Photovoice for Social Change: The Means Are Ends in the Making” by Mary Ann Burris, PhD, Robin A. Evans-Agnew, PhD, RN, and Robert W. Strack, PhD.

In this episode, Tara Maudrie is in conversation with Leialoha Ka‘ula and Jonathan Cruz about their project planting Kalo on the continent. They discuss their ancestral connection to Kalo and how the garden is not just a space for growing food, but it's also a way to perpetuate their culture. They explain how growing Kalo has become a metaphor for their organization; it’s reflective of their ability to adapt, be resilient, and to continue on despite the hardships that they encounter. The garden has allowed them to build a relationship with the community, other Hawaiians on the continent, and other Native communities as a way to decolonize and dismantle Western ideologies that they were forced to assimilate to.

This episode references the article titled “Growing Kalo (Taro) in the Continental United States” by Leialoha Ka‘ula, BA, Jonathan Cruz, BS, Natlie Dutro, BS, Donna Ching, MN, Kawehilani Wong, BA, and Alexandra Malia Jackson, PhD. You can find out more by visiting http://www.kalohcc.org, or you can read more in HPP’s ⁠Focus Issue: Indigenous Food Sovereignty As A Path To Health Equity⁠.

In this episode, Dr. Cassandra Nguyen is in conversation with Dr. LaVerne Demientieff, Harleigh Moore-Wilson, and Makynna Sharp regarding their food sovereignty projects. They discussed the loss of traditional knowledge through colonization, and creating spaces for elders to reconnect and build relationships back with activities and skills to learn and share the knowledge to future generations. They explored Osage’s mobile market that aims to create new systems that are uniquely Indigenous and support ending food insecurity in their community and beyond. They also discussed growing traditional and endangered seeds for more nutritional food staples, and a return to Native produce.

This episode references the articles titled “Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp” by LaVerne Xilegg Demientieff, LMSW, PhD, Stacy Rasmus, PhD, Jessica C. Black, PhD, Jessica Presley, MPP, Alex Jauregui-Dusseau, DHSc, Kaylee R. Clyma, MPH, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH, “The Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity: The Osage Nation’s Mobile Market” by Jann Hayman, EdD, Harleigh Moore-Wilson, MBA, Cody Vavra, MS, Dawn Wormington, Jessica Presley, MPP, Alex Jauregui-Dusseau, DHSc, Kaylee R. Clyma, MPH, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH, and “The Choctaw Nation’s Growing Hope Program” by Ian Thompson, PhD, Jacqueline Putman, Misty Madbull, BS, Makynna Sharp, Jessica Presley, MPP, Alex Jauregui-Dusseau, DHSc, Kaylee Clyma, MPH, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH. You can read more in HPP’s Focus Issue: Indigenous Food Sovereignty As A Path To Health Equity.

"It's our duty as the original stewards of this land to cultivate balanced and healthy relationships with all aspects of our food systems so that we can all continue to thrive."
In this episode, Cassandra Nguyen is in conversation with Tara Maudrie about food sovereignty, which is more about the idea of relational stewardship through our foodways, rather than agency. She reminds us to think about whose knowledge and frameworks we are privileging in the way we evaluate and measure outcomes. She also hopes the framework will be used by communities as they work to revitalize, strengthen, and grow their foodways, as well as aid them as they push back and tell the story of their food system initiatives to incorporate an assets-based perspective.
This episode references the article titled “Food Security and Food Sovereignty: The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving” by Tara L. Maudrie, MSPH, Cassandra J. Nguyen, PhD, Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, Megan Mucioki, PhD, Kaylee R. Clyma, MPH, Gary L. Ferguson, ND, and Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH. You can read more in HPP’s Focus Issue: Indigenous Food Sovereignty As A Path To Health Equity.

“Arts and prescription is such an important model on its own, and it's also an example of what we can do when we allow ourselves to imagine that things can be different than they have been.”

In this episode, Dr. Tasha Golden discusses what “arts on prescription” is, what we’ve learned about it from research and emerging models, and why it matters for improving community and whole-person health. She encourages us to imagine what it means to have well being and what it would look like if our health care systems/providers were a part of not only that absence of disease, but the presence of well being in people's lives.

This episode references the resource titled "Arts on Prescription: A Field Guide for US Communities" and coincides with the HPP article titled "Defining “Arts Participation” for Public Health Research." For more information, you can also check out www.tashagolden.com/fieldguide or HPP's Special Supplement: Arts in Public Health.

In this episode, Dr. Anji Buckner-Capone and Dr. Marcelle Dougan discuss college students' perceptions on COVID-19 vaccine mandates and their vaccine hesitancy. They remind us of the need to accessibility and trust when researching contentious topics, and their neutral language allowed students to express their polarizing views.

This episode references the article titled "Mandating COVID-19 Vaccination on Campus: A Qualitative Analysis of a Cross-Sectional Study of California College Students" by Anji Buckner-Capone, EdD, MPH and Marcelle Dougan, ScD, MPH, MEng.