Routine and illness: A conversation about labor, care and structure
by Weng San Sit, TPR Fellow Hanna Barton PH.D., and Kasey Boehmer PH.D., M.P.H.
Recording: Routine and illness: A conversation about labor, care and structure with artist Weng San Sit, TPR Fellow Hanna Barton PH.D., and Kasey Boehmer PH.D., M.P.H. The program is part of "Chronicles of the Chronic," a group exhibition that celebrates the creativity and resilience of the chronically ill community by featuring regional, national and international artists whose artistic practice reflects holistically upon the experience of living with a chronic health condition.
About the panelists (more info in YouTube video description):
Weng San Sit is a Singaporean Artist and educator currently based in Los Angeles. Utilizing primarily still and moving images, San’s work investigates the systems and power structures that create the dissonance between inattentive, homogeneous representations of marginalized bodies and the reality of complex and multi-faceted identities.
Hanna Barton, PhD (they/them) is a human factors and health systems engineer with expertise in field research methods, health information technology (HIT) evaluation, and human-centered design. They envision and design systems of care that honor individuals’ unique life experiences to provide personalized care that addresses peoples’ real needs and desires. A significant contribution of their work thus far has been identifying and describing the home care environments and care work of caregivers, including the strategies caregivers develop to provide effective, safe care in their home. Currently, they are a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
The Patient Revolution Kasey Boehmer, PhD, MPH, NBC-HWC is an Assistant Professor of Health Services Research and National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. She is a faculty member in the Mayo Clinic Division of Nephrology and Hypertension and the Division of Health Care Delivery Research. She also serves as a health services researcher in the Knowledge and Evaluation Research (KER) Unit and the Rural Health core in the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences at Mayo Clinic.
