Graphic Public Health

Meredith Li-Vollmer is a communications specialist for Public Health-Seattle and King County, Washington, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She is also on the faculty of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. Her comics have been published in The Stranger, MUTHA, Illustrated PEN, and the American Journal of Public Health.

"Graphic Public Health is part art catalog and part beginner's guide that invites other health communicators to consider plunging into the comics medium. By narrating her own thinking as she developed the comics shown in the book, Li-Volmer gently tutors readers in how to think about using visual, sequential narrative formats to reach target audiences, showing how comics can situate health information in social relationships and social contexts, thereby making information relevant to the people public health wants to reach." -Stacy Pigg, coeditor of Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective "In her thoroughly up-to-date, informative, and useful book, Li-Vollmer convincingly argues for the effectiveness of comics in conveying health risks and desired behaviors. She proves this point with splendid and deeply engaging examples, and provides an instructive how-to for creating your own. This book should be in every public health curriculum; it's not only informative but also wonderful fun to read." -Marion Nestle, author of Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics