The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center Exhibit is on view today (April 10) through April 27. A tour and panel discussion will take place April 19.
Dr. Lauri Andress, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management, and Leadership in the School of Public Health, explores low wealth communities, community and economic development, and nontraditional “policy analysis tools” in her research on social determinants of health, inequities and the built environment. This exhibit gives visual context to her work, incorporating participatory photoanalytics, GIS mapping and video with an aim of integrating the voices of vulnerable groups into public policy decision-making.
The exhibit sheds light on the built environment and population health status of Charleston’s West Side, with photos and narratives supplied by community members and School of Medicine students.
Andress will present a tour of the exhibition at 11 a.m. April 19, followed by a panel discussion at noon. An exhibit video can be found at https://tinyurl.com/mhopfv9.
Lunch will be available to the first 40 people who RSVP at mrobin10@hsc.wvu.edu.
The Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center is located at 1 Medical Drive, Morgantown, WV, 26506.
For more information on WVU Libraries exhibits, email Exhibits & Programs coordinator Sally Deskins, sbdeskins@mail.wvu.edu.
The exhibit is jointly facilitated by the School of Public Health, WVU Libraries and the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The project described was supported in part by the National Institute Of General Medical Sciences, U54GM104942. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH.
For more information visit: http://mediaspace.hsc.wvu.edu/media/Imagining+The+West+Side/1_673dsywc/42739741.