{"id":48021,"date":"2025-07-01T17:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/?p=48021"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:36:08","slug":"photovoice-engagement-climate-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/01\/photovoice-engagement-climate-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Using photos to express community perspectives: how photovoice reflects the daily health risk of climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-253ab41b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-top:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaborators:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Medical Science Division, University of Oxford (Study Sponsor)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wellcome through Dalberg (Presentation Sponsor)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology (Local Collaborator)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Interested in collaborating on public and community engagement in health research? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reach us at <a href=\"mailto:PCE_Indonesia@oucru.org\">PCE_Indonesia@oucru.org<\/a> to explore partnership and other opportunities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:20px\">Indonesia, located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, is highly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and others. Many Indonesians see these events as unavoidable natural facts, which shape how they understand climate change: outside of human control. This misconception can prevent communities from being aware and acknowledging how human actions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike pollution and deforestation\u00e2\u20ac\u201dcontribute to environmental changes and how those changes can impact human health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, a project across Indonesia, Vietnam, and Nepal aims to explore how communities perceive and experience the links between climate change and health. The project team quickly learned that such complex topics can be challenging for the community to communicate through words, regardless of their experience and struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/PCST-Presentation-Ragil-Dien_final.pptx-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photovoice project visualising climate and health impacts in Indonesia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photovoice as a creative tool to explore the experience of climate change and its effects on health<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2024, a project across Indonesia, Vietnam, and Nepal aims to explore how communities perceive and experience the links between climate change and health. The project team quickly learned that such complex topics can be challenging for the community to communicate through words, regardless of their experience and struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-07-01_18-02-55-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Participatory Visual Method Workshop for Climate Change and Health\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-07-01_18-02-55-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-07-01_18-02-55-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-07-01_18-02-55-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/photo_2025-07-01_18-02-55-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Participatory Visual Methods (PVM) workshop for art students at Bandung Institute of Technology<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over six months, we worked with 45 students and community members across Indonesia and gathered more than 70 visual stories\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhundreds of photographs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat reveal their real-life experiences, showing how they see their world changes. Through those everyday photos, issues often invisible in official reports\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike worsening air and water quality, rising food insecurity, and the spread of disease, were exposed. Heat stress, difficulties in finding safe food and clean water, and illness spreading are among the aspects that community members reveal about how climate change impacts their health. It makes the issue real and relatable\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a distant problem, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening to real people in their daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\" style=\"margin-top:22px;margin-right:22px;margin-bottom:22px;margin-left:22px\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C1Ea1n1Pbag\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&#038;igsh=MWFpcnV2dHF4OGdpeQ==\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those visual stories are more than just everyday images &#8211; they are expressions of concern, confusion, and fear, but also resilience and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photovoice method has proven to be a powerful tool in raising awareness and helping both communities and scientists understand climate change in a deeper, more personal way. By giving people a voice through images, we can better understand their experiences and find new ways to support them in facing climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-issuu wp-block-embed-issuu\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Climate x Health Photovoice Poster PCST\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?u=oucru_vietnam&#038;d=climate_x_health_photovoice_poster_pcst\" style=\"border:none; width: 500px; height: 383px;\" allow=\"clipboard-write,allow-top-navigation,allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation,allow-downloads,allow-scripts,allow-same-origin,allow-popups,allow-modals,allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox,allow-forms\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The project&#8217;s poster, presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abdn.ac.uk\/events\/conferences\/pcst-2025\/\">Public and Communication Science Technology Conference<\/a> (PCST) 2025<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-issuu wp-block-embed-issuu\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"CAN&#039;T YOU SEE? Using Photovoice to Communicate Climate x Health Risks\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?u=oucru_vietnam&#038;d=can_t_you_see_using_photovoice_to_communicate_cli\" style=\"border:none; width: 500px; height: 383px;\" allow=\"clipboard-write,allow-top-navigation,allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation,allow-downloads,allow-scripts,allow-same-origin,allow-popups,allow-modals,allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox,allow-forms\"  allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Access the photobook compilation, capturing the Indonesian lived reality facing climate change here<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity today. Its impact on livelihoods, equity, healthcare access, and community resilience falls hardest on vulnerable groups\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwomen, children, ethnic minorities, older adults, and those with pre-existing conditions. How can a creative engagement method, photovoice explore the perception and communicate climate and health risks in Indonesia, Vietnam and Nepal?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":48083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-48021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","tag-pce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48109,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48021\/revisions\/48109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.oucru.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}