Witness with care
Center voice, context, consent, history, and the authority of lived experience.
Story and scholarship
The Public Health Griot™
Story is evidence. Wisdom deserves witness. Knowledge should return something useful.
Mission
To honor story as a form of knowledge and move lived experience into scholarship, teaching, public conversation, healing, and accountable action.
Vision
A public-health practice where communities are recognized as knowledge holders, stories are handled ethically, and insight returns to the people whose lives made it possible.
Goals
Translate responsibly
Connect story with research, teaching, policy, and practice without stripping away meaning.
Return value
Require storytelling and scholarship to produce something useful, accessible, and accountable to community.
The boutique
Framework and Courses
The Framework
The Public Health Griot Approach™ offers five connected practices: Rooting, Invitation, Witnessing, Translation, and Return.
Explore the framework ↓The Courses
Five interdisciplinary courses available as a complete package or individually, à la carte.
Explore the courses →Essays and Insights
Public scholarship, cultural reflection, and writing that brings story, evidence, faith, and accountability into conversation.
Read on Substack →The Public Health Griot Approach™
A culturally grounded framework for story, evidence, and accountable return.
Locate the story in people, place, history, culture, and power.
Create an ethical invitation built on clarity, agency, and relationship.
Listen without extraction and honor the storyteller as an authority.
Move meaning into research, learning, strategy, or public action without flattening it.
Bring knowledge, benefit, and accountability back to the community.