Participatory Visual Methodologies in Global Public Health

Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Her research cuts across visual and other participatory methodologies in relation to youth, gender and sexuality, girls’ education, teacher identity and critical areas of international development linked to gender and HIV and AIDS. Marni Sommer is an Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA. She is also the Executive Editor of the Global Public Health journal. Her research includes the use of participatory methodologies to explore how gender, sexuality, and the transition through puberty intersect with education among young people in low-income countries.

Introduction: Participatory visual methodologies in global public health 1. Research as intervention? Exploring the health and well-being of children and youth facing global adversity through participatory visual methods 2. ‘Closer to my world’: Children with autism spectrum disorder tell their stories through photovoice 3. Growing healthy children and communities: Children’s insights in Lao People’s Democratic Republic 4. Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research 5. Exploring social inclusion strategies for public health research and practice: The use of participatory visual methods to counter stigmas surrounding street-based substance abuse in Colombia 6. Bodies as evidence: Mapping new terrain for teen pregnancy and parenting 7. From informed consent to dissemination: Using participatory visual methods with young people with long-term conditions at different stages of research 8. Beyond engagement in working with children in eight Nairobi slums to address safety, security, and housing: Digital tools for policy and community dialogue 9. ‘People like me don’t make things like that’: Participatory video as a method for reducing leprosy-related stigma 10. Supporting youth and community capacity through photovoice: Reflections on participatory research on maternal health in Wakiso district, Uganda 11. Using participant-empowered visual relationship timelines in a qualitative study of sexual behaviour 12. Regarding realities: Using photo-based projective techniques to elicit normative and alternative discourses on gender, relationships, and sexuality in Mozambique 13. Visual methodologies and participatory action research: Performing women’s communitybased health promotion in post-Katrina New Orleans 14. The heroines of their own stories: Insights from the use of life history drawings in research with a transnational migrant community 15. Community health workers as cultural producers in addressing gender-based violence in rural South Africa 16. Champions for social change: Photovoice ethics in practice and ‘false hopes’ for policy and social change