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2019 Grant Awards

Health Messaging in Africa: Public Performance and Community Health Education

  • Jasmine Blanks Jones
  • Graduate School of Education, Master of Public Health Program, School of Arts & Sciences
  • Arts Integration Grant
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Jasmine Blanks Jones, MPP, is a PhD Candidate in Education and Africana Studies and will teach a new course for the Master of Public Health Program which examines the work and research of B4 Youth Theatre, young artists from Liberia, who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis. The course considers how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign. Members of B4 Youth Theatre will travel to Philadelphia to share their firsthand experiences and guide the class through the use of their playwriting model for community change. Students will then develop performance-based public health messaging projects, in collaboration with local organizations dedicated to serving immigrant communities and communities of color.

  • 2019
  • Arts Integration
  • Curricular Support
  • Graduate School of Education
  • Master of Public Health Program
  • School of Arts & Sciences
  • Teaching Art Grant

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