Meredith Li-Vollmer on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2016. Meredith is a risk communications specialist at Public Health – Seattle & King County.

Crossposted from Public Health Insider

I’m at a conference, and I just saw a T-Rex wearing a Supergirl backpack trot by.  Clearly, I’m not at the CDC (otherwise, Dr. Tom Friedan has a hobby that no one knows about). I’m at San Diego Comic-Con, the premiere comics convention in the world, alongside a projected 130,000 other conference attendees. So what’s a public health professional doing here?

I spoke on a panel called “Comics and health: Saving lives and preventing disease” as part of the Comics Arts academic conference associated with Comic-Con. Our panel shared exciting work that demonstrates the value of the comics medium in conveying health information, part of a growing discipline of “graphic medicine.”

Read more at Public Health Insider