Doing Critical Health Communication: Negotiating the Terrain of Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Kimberly N Kline,Shamshad Khan

doi:10.3389/fcomm.2019.00051

Kimberly N Kline, Shamshad Khan

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00051

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Abstract

In this article, we think about how critical health communication scholars can speak to audiences outside the discipline in order to make an impact on public health and policy, health promotion, and health care delivery. We take into consideration how are we situated in our relationship with transdisciplinary research as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in collaborating with transdisciplinary teams including the ways we can navigate the inherent method/ological tensions in such collaborations. We focus on how the methodological considerations of “critical” health scholarship are situated vis-a-vis the epistemic status quo commitments in the disciplines of our potential allies.

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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Health Communication, a section of the journal Frontiers in Communication
In this reflective article, drawing on our personal and productive experiences with transdisciplinary research, we think about how critical health communication scholars can speak to audiences outside the discipline of communication in order to make an impact on public health and policy, health promotion, and health care delivery
We focus on how the methodological considerations of “critical” health scholarship are situated vis-à-vis the epistemic commitments in the disciplines of our potential allies and whether it is possible to collaborate in ways that can enhance the goal of social justice, equity and human rights within public health and communication

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Introduction

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Health Communication, a section of the journal Frontiers in Communication. In this reflective article, drawing on our personal and productive experiences with transdisciplinary research, we think about how critical health communication scholars can speak to audiences outside the discipline of communication in order to make an impact on public health and policy, health promotion, and health care delivery.

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