For this Health Equity Speaker Series event, MHDI will host a presentation by Julie Tippens titled "Visual and Participatory Approaches to Identify Refugees’ (Mental) Health-Promoting Resources: a Photovoice Study with Yazidi Women."
Julie A. Tippens, DrPH, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). She is a global health scholar with two decades of experience as a practitioner and researcher with populations affected by forced and survival migration in North America, Central America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. Her current research focuses on refugees’ resilience- and health-promoting strategies in resettlement and humanitarian settings in the U.S., Kenya, and Tanzania. As an interdisciplinary, community-engaged investigator, Dr. Tippens blends ethnographic, participatory, and visual research methods to understand the sociocultural and structural determinants of refugees’ health in diverse contexts.
More details at: https://unl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WgrF-xR6RbitEpdDe2siFg