Between 2014 and 2016, the Center for Arts in Medicine conducted a study of how the arts are used for health communication in public health programs in Uganda. The study was funded by the University fo Florida Research Tutorial Abroad program, and conducted in partnership with Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Principle Investigator: Dr. Jill Sonke, UF

Co-investigators: Dr. Ginger Pesata, UF; Dr. Venny Nakazibwe, MU; Jude Ssenyonjo, Communication for Healthy Communities, Uganda

Purpose of the study: to learn about how the arts are used in health communication programs in Uganda, and to document theoretical foundations and evidence-based best practices for doing so.

Methods:

• Structured in-depth interviews with 27 public health leaders and artists who work in public health in Uganda
• Directed and conventional content analyses
• Program reports and publications

Download the full text article published in Health Communication. 

Sonke, J., Pesata, V., Nakazibwe, V., Ssenyonjo, J., Lloyd, R., Espino, D., ... & Kerrigan, M. (2017). The arts and health communication in Uganda: A light under the table. Health communication, 33(4): 401-408.

Results from these studies have been published in our Arts & Ebola Concept Brief and in an article in BMJ Outcomes.