There are five complementary focal areas that guide Jeanne Moseley’s current public health practice and research interests. They include 1) cultivating strong engaged learning partnerships and programs, 2) integrating the art and the humanities to expand and deepen the critical-thinking, communication and practice capacities of students, practitioners, researchers and clinicians, 3) utilizing evaluation methodologies to strengthen programs, partnerships and pedagogy 4) valuing and inviting student participation and leadership and 5) expanding existing partnerships to support new collaborations, research projects and initiatives focused on the linkages between the environment and human health.

Project Highlights:
Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health - An Innovative Model for Utilizing Poetry to Build Critical Reflection Practice and Enhance Public Health Education among US Public Health and Tanzanian Medical Students

Poetry serves as an innovative and experimental tool to deepen critical reflection practice and create a space for students to explore, share, and connect their lived experiences to the practice of public health and medicine. During the 2024 and 2025 Cornell and  KCMC University collaborative global and public health policy case study program, a new innovative curricular component, Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health was developed and integrated into the program.  In these sessions, poetry is  used as a tool to center health promotion, social connection, critical reflection practice, and creative expression, while also drawing attention to the intersectionality of human and ecosystem health. These new sessions create opportunities for story-telling, sharing, and documenting the human experience as it relates to ecosystem health and well-being. The integration of poetry and the arts into public health education at the graduate and undergraduate level is a novel pedagogical approach. Our team is currently conducting a qualitative evaluation of the Poetry for Good Public and Ecosystem Health curricular initiative with funding support from Cornell’s Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute. 

“The Art of Global and Public Health” - Utilizing an HIV/AIDS Study Gallery to Integrate the Arts and Humanities into Global and Public Health Education

Since 2015, Jeanne Moseley has collaborated with Cornell University’s Johnson Museum to curate and facilitate an interactive HIV/AIDS study gallery for more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students. The study gallery features the photography of Brian Weil, an artist and activist, who fought to make AIDS a subject of cultural and political discourse. Alongside Weil’s photos are HIV/AIDS global awareness education posters, providing insights into how culture and politics structure public health communications. While grappling with the photos, students are challenged to think deeply about the history of HIV/AIDS and to put human faces and stories to the dramatic numbers they learn about in class. These sessions enrich students' understanding of how political-economic and sociocultural factors shape HIV risk, vulnerability, stigma, and discrimination. Through the integration of experiential learning sessions utilizing the arts and humanities, students gain a deeper appreciation for interprofessionalism, social and historical context, and are challenged to think more critically and creatively about public health issues and responses. Here’s a poster from the 2025 CUGH conference highlighting this project. 

• 2003: Graduate Fellow, Center for Health, Culture, and Society, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• 2002: Master of Public Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA                 
• 1996: Bachelor of Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA