Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: public health

Amplifying Resilient Communities: Identifying Resilient Community Practices to Better Inform Health System Design

Amplifying Resilient Communities: Identifying Resilient Community Practices to Better Inform Health System Design

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point, bringing heightened awareness around the preparedness and resilience of public health systems in dealing with severe shocks. While the pandemic has...

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance

PechaKucha Presentation—When a man rang our doorbell late at night and claimed that his teenage daughter was in our house, but she wasn't, my husband and I considered getting a doorbell cam. With camera surveillance and facial recognition becoming more commonplace, we wanted a privileged view of...

Something More Persuasive than Fear

Something More Persuasive than Fear

What’s the first thing to do if, at the end of your work day, you come home to your apartment and see a river of water flowing out from under the washroom door, threatening to harm your home and your downstairs neighbor’s? Do you start to clean up the mess while the water keeps flowing? No, you...