Dr. Ryan J. Petteway, associate professor in the OSHU-PSU School of Public Health, is a public health scholar, educator, and poet who integrates social epidemiology, participatory research, and creative arts to advance health equity. He engages critical, Black feminist, and decolonial theory and methods pursue procedural and epistemic justice and advance antiracist praxis within public health pedagogy, research, and practice, including via satire/humor, music, and poetry. His applied research integrates social epidemiology and CBPR/YPAR to improve empirical and conceptual understanding of place and health.
Our collective work towards health justice is constrained by a lack of imagination and audacity when it comes to discourse about ‘evidence’ – as many of us seldom question extant power relations that shape whose and which forms of data and knowledge are valued and legitimized. I’m looking forward to supporting E4A in its work to honor other/multiple ways of knowing, to center community knowledges, and transform dominant health narratives.