This book draws on the author's ten years of participatory work to examine core themes of representation, misrepresentation, and re-presentation within place-health research and practice. The book includes practice- and research-based projects with implications and applications for practitioners (e.g. local health department epidemiologists) and academics, introducing readers to an array of new and mixed-methods within place-health research. In nine chapters, readers will learn about the inclusive participatory methods and processes rooted in principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), with emphasis on the integration of CBPR and information and communication technologies (ICT) for studying place-health. By introducing a new place-health research framework, the book offers a critical examination of how place and health geographies, and narratives/stories therein, are constructed and deconstructed through inclusive and equitable research. To illustrate this framework, the book features research projects that simultaneously constitute research (data) and art, presenting readers with a unique narrative perspective through which to view works of spatial production, of which place-health is one. The book is intended for academic researchers and practitioners in public health and health geography fields, particularly those whose work engages social epidemiology, urban planning, and aspects of community development, and will also appeal to researchers and practitioners who use participatory, community-inclusive methods and processes in their work, especially that relates to community mapping.

Dr. Ryan J. Petteway is a social epidemiologist and assistant professor in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, OR. His applied research integrates social epidemiology, critical theory, decolonizing methods, and community-based participatory research (CBPR) to examine notions of place, embodiment, and placemaking in community health and development, making use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to democratize research and practice processes. More broadly, his scholarship engages: 1) notions of epistemic, procedural, and distributive justice within public health knowledge production processes-including considerations of power and (mis)representation in data collection, analysis, and use; 2) applications of critical theory to examine dominant discourse/narrative frames of "health equity", e.g. considerations of power and epistemic equity; and 3) pervading ethical frames of public health law and police powers. Dr. Petteway is also an award-winning poet, including a National Poetry Month Prize, a Paper of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His works have appeared in both academic journals and traditional poetry presses. He is an alum of the University of Virginia, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley.

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