The first Change Talk of the quarter is today. Please join us and
welcome Neha back as she talks about the Projecting Health project which
she will be presenting at ICTD 2015 in May.
*What: *Community-Led Video Education for Maternal Health - Neha Kumar*
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*When: *Tuesday, April 7 at 12pm
*Where: *The Allen Center, CSE 203
*Projecting Health: Community-Led Video Education for Maternal Health*
In this talk, I will present a qualitative study of Projecting Health, a
public health project we deployed in rural Uttar Pradesh (India) to
address persistently high maternal and infant mortality rates. This
project is based on our model of Community-led Video Education (CVE),
which leverages community resources for the generation, dissemination,
and assimilation of visual media. We use the lens of information flows
to examine how our instantiation of CVE enables the translation of
globally approved health care norms to local household practices. We
also demonstrate how CVE allows for integration with current community
practices, existing state-supported health care infrastructure, social
and patriarchal structures, and power dynamics within our target
populations to drive community participation.
*Bio:* Neha Kumar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Annenberg School
of Communication in University of Southern California. Prior to this,
she was at the University of Washington for a year, working as a postdoc
with Profs. Richard Anderson and Gaetano Borriello in the Computer
Science and Engineering department. She completed her PhD at the School
of Information at UC Berkeley, where she was advised by Prof. Tapan Parikh.
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