Teen Photovoice Project | Health Advocacy

A Children’s Memorial Hospital researcher has developed a powerful and innovative health advocacy program that uses photovoice, a combination of digital photography and storytelling, to empower minority teens to identify and address important health problems in their communities.

“Photovoice confronts a fundamental problem of community assessment: What professionals, researchers, specialists and outsiders think is important may completely fail to match what the community thinks is important,” said Jonathan Necheles, MD, MPH, an attending physician at Children’s Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Click to read the full report.