Using creative methods for public health messaging

Sarah West

doi:https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2024.033

SEI report / This SEI report gives an overview about a participatory public health project conducted during the pandemic in an informal settlement of Nairobi.

14 August 2024 / About Cities and Wellbeing

Dead drowned bare tree trunks emerging from a lake surface on a blue-gray sky, with trees at the horizon line.

Vulnerability to displacement: the case of Kihoto, Kenya

SEI working paper / The authors provide an overview of the socio-economic impacts and displacement outcomes on the informal settlement of Kihoto, Kenya, post-flooding.

25 June 2024 / About Disaster Risk

Close-up of a woman's hand holding a ladle, stirring a large metal pot filled with stew, set over a basic, open metal stove on a concrete floor.

Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: an unquantified public health burden?

Journal article / Carbon monoxide exposure poses a health risk to many urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa, with concentrations at their highest as evening meals are prepared.

24 May 2024 / About Pollution and Wellbeing

An abstract, colourful painting fills the frame, with strokes of red, yellow, purple, and brown. An eye has been painted in the middle. In the foreground, a Black hand holds a paintbrush loaded with paint.

Transdisciplinary research as a means of protecting human health, ecosystems and climate by engaging people to act on air pollution

Journal article / Using arts-based approaches, researchers worked with communities in Nairobi to empower people to take action on air pollution.

15 April 2024 / About Pollution

A landscape view of the Manohara informal settlement - Kathmandu, Nepal. There is a waterway in the central foreground, with buildings in the distance either side of it. Himalayas in the background.

Knowledge infrastructures, conflictual coproduction, and the politics of planning: a post-foundational approach to political capability in Nepal and Thailand

Journal article / Struggles for equality and rights are bound up in urban participatory planning. This complicates dynamics of co-production and political subjectivisation.

22 December 2023 / About Geopolitics and Public policy

SEI at IFLA world congress 2023

Past event / The International Federation of Landscape Architects will hold its 2023 world congress in Nairobi and Sweden with SEI researchers presenting an abstract.

28 September 2023 / About Cities and Participation

Fourth International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

Past event / The International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies is an annual global event celebrated on September 7, to raise awareness about the importance of clean air.

07 September 2023 / About Cities and Pollution

Disaster displacement in cities: A case of Kihoto settlement in Naivasha, Kenya

Past event / This workshop is a feedback session with the local community members who took part in an inception workshop at the start of the project in Naivasha, Kenya

26 July 2023 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk, Participation and Sanitation

Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya

Journal article / Adopting citizen science methods, researchers used questionnaires and breathing tests to investigate the impact of air pollution on Nairobian schoolchildren.

6 July 2023 / About Cities, Pollution and Wellbeing

informal settlements