S1 Ep. 25 Exploring Arts as a Shared Language

In this episode, Dr. Lourdes Rodríguez talks to four authors of articles in the Arts in Public Health special supplement. Dr. Heang Rubin and Cynthia Woo talk about their work with the Pao Arts Center, and Rabbi Nancy Epstein and Anne Bluethenthal talk about the Skywatchers program. The group discusses the ways in which their teams bridged differences in disciplinary language, and they all share stories about the things that they learned through their collaboration. This episode covered the article “Arts, Culture, and Creativity as a Strategy for Countering the Negative Social Impacts of Immigration Stress and Gentrification” by Carolyn Leung Rubin, EdD, Virginia Rall Chomitz, PhD, Cynthia Woo, MA, Giles Li, MPA, Susan Koch-Weser, ScD, and Peter Levine, PhD. This episode covered the article “Leveraging Arts for Justice, Equity, and Public Health: The Skywatchers Program and Its Implications for Community-Based Health Promotion Practice and Research” by Rabbi Nancy E. Epstein, MPH, MAHL, Anne Bluethenthal, MFA, Deirdre Visser, MFA, Clara Pinsky, and Meredith Minkler, DrPH, MPH.