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Understanding Health Through Education, Art, and Community

Phelps Public Health connects education, art, and community action to help people understand health from a broader public health perspective.

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WHO WE ARE

Health is shaped by more than the choices we make.

Our health is influenced by many things — the places we live, the people around us, the opportunities we receive, and circumstances we may never be able to choose.

Some of these factors are within our control. Many are not.

But even when we cannot change everything, we can still choose to understand more, listen more carefully, and create spaces where people feel seen, heard, and supported.

Phelps Public Health exists to turn public health from an abstract idea into something people can experience, discuss, and act on.

Phelps Public Health exists to turn public health from an abstract idea into something people can experience, discuss, and act on.

Through education, creative expression, community participation, and service, we hope to bring public health closer to everyday life — connecting evidence with experience, and knowledge with human stories.

We may not have every answer. But we believe meaningful change often begins with learning to see a problem more clearly, making room for people to speak, and being willing to do something with what we have learned.

We may not have every answer. But we believe meaningful change often begins with learning to see a problem more clearly, making room for people to speak, and being willing to do something with what we have learned.

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WHAT WE FOCUS ON

From Understanding to Expression to Action

Public health can feel distant when it only appears in reports, statistics, or classrooms. Our work creates ways for people to understand health, express experiences that may be difficult to explain, and take part in meaningful action.

Understand.

Public Health Education

Making public health knowledge easier to understand and closer to everyday life.

We translate important ideas into learning and communication that helps people connect health with the choices, environments, and experiences around them.

Understand.

Public Health Education

Making public health knowledge easier to understand and closer to everyday life.

We translate important ideas into learning and communication that helps people connect health with the choices, environments, and experiences around them.

Express.

Art, Expression & Health

Creating room for experiences that are difficult to explain with numbers alone.

Through art and creative expression, we create space to explore emotions, environments, illness, identity, and other experiences that shape health and well-being.

Express.

Art, Expression & Health

Creating room for experiences that are difficult to explain with numbers alone.

Through art and creative expression, we create space to explore emotions, environments, illness, identity, and other experiences that shape health and well-being.

Act.

Community Action

Turning understanding into participation.

We create opportunities for people to contribute, share, support others, and turn attention into small but meaningful forms of action.

Act.

Community Action

Turning understanding into participation.

We create opportunities for people to contribute, share, support others, and turn attention into small but meaningful forms of action.

We do not expect one project to change every condition that shapes health. We hope it can change how someone sees the problem — and what they choose to do next.

We do not expect one project to change every condition that shapes health. We hope it can change how someone sees the problem — and what they choose to do next.

We do not expect one project to change every condition that shapes health. We hope it can change how someone sees the problem — and what they choose to do next.

FEATURED PROJECT

Health Vision

Health Vision

A public health art exhibition connecting knowledge, experience, and human stories.

A public health art exhibition connecting knowledge, experience, and human stories.

Public health often begins with ideas that can feel distant — statistics, systems, risks, and policies. Health Vision was created to bring those ideas closer to everyday life.

Through art, conversation, shared experiences, and community participation, we created a space where people could think about health not only as illness or treatment, but as something shaped by emotions, environments, relationships, opportunities, and the world around us.

We did not want the exhibition to give visitors one “correct” answer about health. Instead, we hoped to give people room to pause, notice, express, and begin their own conversations.

Public health becomes more meaningful when people can recognize themselves within it.

Wide view of the Health Vision exhibition wall and gallery environment
Wide view of the Health Vision exhibition wall and gallery environment
Blue sculptural artwork displayed in the Health Vision exhibition
Visitors photographing artwork at the Health Vision exhibition
Visitors photographing artwork at the Health Vision exhibition

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Environmental Health

Environmental Health

How the places and environments around us influence health.

How the places and environments around us influence health.

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Mental Health

Mental Health

Making room for emotions, stress, silence, and experiences that are not always visible.

Making room for emotions, stress, silence, and experiences that are not always visible.

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Physical Health

Physical Health

Looking beyond treatment to prevention, daily life, and the body’s changing needs.

Looking beyond treatment to prevention, daily life, and the body’s changing needs.

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Global Public Health

Global Public Health

Understanding how health connects people across communities, systems, and borders.

Understanding how health connects people across communities, systems, and borders.

Participant writing a reflection on the Health Vision exhibition wall

A Space to Be Heard

A Space to Be Heard

Not every experience of health is easy to explain through numbers alone. Health Vision also created space for people to leave thoughts, experiences, and reflections in their own words — allowing the exhibition to become not only something to look at, but something people could take part in.

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One project cannot answer every question about health. But it can create a place where new questions, conversations, and actions begin.

One project cannot answer every question about health. But it can create a place where new questions, conversations, and actions begin.

One project cannot answer every question about health. But it can create a place where new questions, conversations, and actions begin.

OUR IMPACT

Making public health visible, shared, and human.

Through exhibition, learning, and participation, we create welcoming ways for people to encounter public health in everyday life.

40+

artworks

Creative perspectives bringing public health ideas into view.

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public health themes

Environmental, mental, physical, and global health.

100+

in-person participants

People gathering to experience, reflect, and take part.

CONNECT WITH US

Let’s make space for healthier conversations.

Phelps Public Health brings people together through education, art, and community action. We welcome opportunities to learn, create, and participate together.

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frina@phelpspublichealth.onmicrosoft.com