LIGHT Open Call - Spring 2025
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Building healthier communities, working for a better tomorrow, and ensuring the well-being for all begins with trust. Trust is a cornerstone of public health, influencing an individual’s willingness to seek and maintain care, follow medical advice, engage in advocacy and preventative measures, participate in sustainable practices, and improve individual and community health, ultimately impacting health promotion, disease prevention, mental wellbeing, sustainable change, and the like.
What happens when trust is fractured? When systems fail, when misinformation spreads, when communities feel unheard—how do we restore connection, foster peace, and rebuild a sense of belonging in our communities in the midst of chaos?
Creativity—through art, letters, stories, and poetry—offers building trust with public health. It can be used to reimagine, transform, and understand how we all collectively shape the public health we want, allowing us to explore the narratives, including adversities and aspirations, which enhance our relationship with public health and its systems.
Trust in public health can be accomplished with trust-building solutions across generations, including ideas addressing hurdles, ideas identifying potential solutions, ideas that are genuine, ideas that foster connections in inclusive ways, and ideas that are impactful and resonate with all. Creative outlets can serve as the bridge between us all—individuals, communities, and health professionals and scientists alike—fostering understanding and connection in ways that statistics and policies alone cannot achieve.
What builds and restores trust? Is it empathy, love, accountability, and genuine communication? What fosters mistrust in public health? Is it a lack of transparency, failure to communicate well, limited diverse voices? How can we create peace and community through chaos? Creative expression can help us unpack these questions and envision solutions.
Using art, letters, stories, and poetry, tell us:
How might we build public health systems that are trustworthy?
How might we foster peace and strengthen community in the face of chaos?
Through creativity, whether as an individual, public health professional, or community member or leader, we can reimagine how public health engages with individuals, communities, and professionals, addressing issues like medical mistrust, systemic inequities, and misinformation while also envisioning a world where peace and connection triumph over chaos.
Let creativity lead the way—because trust, once built, once restored, or once reimagined together, can transform health and foster peace between individuals, communities, and the world.
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