Global Health Disrupted
Co-Founder
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Global Health Disrupted is an international grassroots movement supporting local leaders, partnering with communities, and taking creative approaches to improve health around the world.
We believe that combining art, science and community will lead to improved health in meaningful and measurable ways
MAMA Film
Co-Producer
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Partnership with Kenyan filmmaker Cindy Mbae, GHD, and MAMA Kenya to produce a short film highlighting the plight of women's health in East Pokot, Kenya, through the eyes of one woman, Hellen Marron. Through a transcontinental – largely online –
collaborative process, we worked with
American cinematographer Sarah Nathan to produce the film.
Abrazados
Advisor / collaborator
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Partnership with American filmmaker Anne Fentress and DB Peru to create a documentary on gender violence prevention in the Amazon of Peru.
Six Voices
Research Lead
This project pioneers the use of the ‘six voices’ research framework in order to develop a methodology for analysing the text message data collected through The SHM Foundation's Project Khuluma. The six voices include – medical science, literature, socio-cultural, implementation, technology and adolescent voices.​
160 Characters
Principle Investigator
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160 Characters is a participatory and interdisciplinary collaboration between the SHM Foundation and UCL’s Institute of Global Health aimed at generating insights from the 60 000+ text messages sent by adolescents living with HIV in South Africa in peer-to-peer support groups through Project Khuluma.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & EVENTS
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Shannon G, Simpson N, Konkobe T, Ngobeni M, Kydd A, and the Khuluma Mentors. 160 Characters: creative, participatory and interdisciplinary methodologies working with adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. (in publication)
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Simpson N, Shannon G, Konkobe T, Ngobeni M, Kydd A, and the Khuluma Mentors. 160 Characters: Text message data, Peer Support, and Interdisciplinary insights from adolescents living with HIV in South Africa. (in publication)
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Patrick M, Grewal G, Chelagat W, Shannon G. Planetary health justice: feminist approaches to building in rural Kenya. Buildings and Cities. 2020;1(1):308–24. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/bc.18
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Shannon G, Haghparast-Bidgoli H, Chelagat W, Kibachio J, Skordis-Worrall J. Innovating to increase access to diabetes care in Kenya: evaluation of Novo Nordisk’s base of the pyramid project. Global Health Action. 2019; 12:1
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Shannon G, Mannell J. Participation and power: Engaging peer researchers in preventing gender-based violence in the Peruvian Amazon. In Peer research in health and social development: International perspectives on participatory research. Pre-publication.
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Shannon G, Senglaub S, Bailey C. Art, Engagement and Global Health: A Landscape Report. 2018. Commissioned by World Health Organization and Global Health Disrupted
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Shannon G, Simpson N, Kydd A. 160 Characters Findings Report. SHM Foundation. 2018, London
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Shannon G, Mannell J. Participatory action research: Making ethics work for violence prevention projects in small, rural communities. World Bank SVRI blog
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Shannon G, Gulraj G, Kiser A. Hospital Rooms Report: Evaluation of the impact of art in mental health spaces. Global Health Disrupted. 2017.
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Shannon G. Wellcome Trust - Culture and Cause, London 2019: keynote speaker and panelist for international workshop on the role of cultural institutions in global health
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Shannon G. Hamwe Festival, Kigali 2019: launch of the Global Health Disrupted Landscape report on arts, health and community engagement and workshop on creative approaches to global health
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Shannon G. WHO and Wellcome Trust Community Engagement Roundtable, London 2019: ‘Thought leader’ on community engagement in global health to help guide WHO’s new strategy and potential contributions.
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Shannon G. Royal Australian College of Physicians, Darwin 2018: Keynote speaker on Arts and Health