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In this episode of Moving Upstream, Prevention Institute’s Vibhuti Kacholia and La’Quana Williams explore what it means to expand the boundaries of evidence in public health. They discuss UCEE—Uplifting Contextual and Experiential Evidence—a framework that challenges the field’s overreliance on quantitative data, and La’Quana’s narrative case study series A Mercy in the Telling, which positions memory, story, and place as legitimate forms of evidence. Together, they explore how research, lived experience, and art can be interwoven into a more human framework for equity and justice. 🔗 Links &
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Close your eyes. Inhale slowly and deeply, so that your stomach rises. Exhale slowly as your stomach deflates. Repeat. Then, and only when your thoughts have stopped racing, picture your community. What would it look like with greater access to parks and green spaces? What would it sound like? Smell like? Feel like? Finally, when you are ready, open your eyes. This visualization activity took place during the first People, Parks, and Power (P3) in-person Convening, an event that would cement my intuition that I was in the right place in my career. The Convening was the first time I met P3’s