About this Course

Each year, TEPHINET receives hundreds of photographs taken by FETP trainees and graduates depicting their work in action. Photography provides a compelling medium through which to illustrate field epidemiology and its impact on public health across communities worldwide. As field epidemiologists routinely work and often photograph subjects in ethically sensitive situations (for example, in taking photographs of children, of patients with medical conditions, or of subjects within healthcare facilities), TEPHINET identified the need to provide information on ethical considerations in global health photography targeting the FETP community. Through a series of six videos, this course will cover topics including photo composition, consent, power dynamics, editing, and caption-writing. PowerPoint slides for each module are available for download for future reference.

About the Instructor

From 2017 to 2019, Dr. Aubrey P. Graham taught in the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University as the Postdoctoral Interdisciplinary Teaching Fellow. Aubrey has a background as a photojournalist and communications photographer and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Emory University with master’s degrees from Emory (Anthropology) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Social Anthropology of Development). Since 2009, her research has employed photography as both method and theory as she explores the politics, imagination, ethics, and implications of humanitarianism in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. While professionally training horses in McDonough, Georgia, USA, Aubrey continues her visual practice within her research and consulting for humanitarian and development agencies.

Please note that all images used in these six modules, unless otherwise indicated, were produced by Dr. Aubrey P. Graham. She holds the copyright to the images. Photographs cannot be reproduced, copied, shared, or otherwise repurposed without her consent. For questions on how to use any of the images shown here in other contexts, please email aubreygraham@gmail.com.

For questions about this course, please contact Tina Rezvani, TEPHINET Communications Manager, at trezvani@tephinet.org.

TEPHINET thanks Aubrey P. Graham for sharing her expertise and developing the content of this module. Thank you also to the following individuals for providing feedback on early drafts of the course content:

• Vikki Carr De Los Reyes, FETP Philippines
• Greice Madeleine Ikeda do Carmo, FETP Brazil (EpiSUS)
• Marcelo Yoshito Wada, FETP Brazil (EpiSUS)
• Jadher Percio, FETP Brazil (EpiSUS)
• Priscila Bochi de Souza, FETP Brazil (EpiSUS)