Photo elicitation
Beginning in October 2014, our team at the Center for Critical Public Health set out to investigate how gender overlaps with ideas around alcohol use. Using an interview-based approach, we’ve now interviewed roughly one hundred and sixty 18-25 year-olds living in the Bay Area. As part of our interview schedule, …
Stories have weight
The past two years have been exciting for our team at the Center. Our first project interviewing Black youth about stigma and tobacco use has been eye opening, and we’re spending most of our time now coding interview transcripts and conducting analyses. We’ll be posting more on that in the …
Getting to a place of stability
This respondent was a foster youth who recently transitioned to independent status in terms of the state. She had been on the streets in the past, but she currently lives with her girlfriend and attends a vocational program to be a chef. She said she smokes to relieve stress. “The …
Critical public health research discussion list
We’ve started a new discussion list focused on critical public health research. We would like this list to be a place where researchers can talk informally about ideas and methods, and exchange helpful tips and advice. If you’re a researcher or student who is interested in critical perspectives on public …
Digital media & critical public health
A grad student at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, Sharon O’Hara, interviewed our center director Tamar Antin about digital innovation and public health. Sharon then put together the great video below using iMovie. Pretty interesting to see the combination of paths to exploring digital media engagement with public health …
E-cigarettes
There’s a lot of discussion today about e-cigarettes. Will they help current smokers quit smoking? Will they jeopardize public health efforts that aim to make cigarette smoking socially unacceptable, or could their popularity further denormalize cigarette smoking? Will they be a gateway into cigarette smoking for young people? If e-cigarettes are less harmful than conventional cigarettes, does stigmatizing e-cigarettes threaten public health efforts?
“Hey, y’all got to understand – y’all prolly scared of us… we scared of y’all too!”
UPDATE: This post was reblogged at Ethnography Matters – Street-level recruiting, downtown Oakland, Broadway 13th to 16th, Oscar Grant Plaza (formerly but officially known as Frank Ogawa Plaza). We’ve been talking to all kinds of people – students, workers, merchants, customers, pimps, players, hustlers, dealers, addicts, sex workers and eyeballing …
Another ‘ugly truth’ ad
One of our first interview respondents, Jovante*, a 19-year-old African American artist, mentioned this ad from the ugly truth campaign (“the nation’s largest smoking prevention campaign for youth and young adults“): For Jovante, this ad was suspicious. He thought it was over the top, did not make sense, and that …