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.
“Effective and colorful. . . . Lay readers can enjoy the dynamic
artwork and compassionate perspectives on healthcare, and maybe
learn a little in the process.”—Publishers Weekly
“Both educative and scholarly. . . . The scholarship of this form
of literature is definitely needed and cutting edge.”—Barbara A.
Anderson Doody's Review Service
“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-Vollmer 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
wonderfully fun to read.”—Marion Nestle, author of Eat, Drink,
Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics
“This foundational anthology is timely. Li-Vollmer demonstrates
that sharing personal stories that support the need for
evidence-based prevention and promotion strategies has become
increasingly more important to our collective lives amid the
challenges of climate change, pollution, pandemics, and polarized
politics.”—JoAnn Purcell Biography
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