Jean M. Breny

Southern Connecticut State University

Jean M. Breny is professor and chair of the Department of Public Health at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. Her scholarship aims to eliminate health disparities through an antiracism lens using photovoice research and a community-based participatory research paradigm that informs public health practice. Along with colleagues at Southern Connecticut State and Yale Universities, she is developing a Center for Health Equity and Eliminating Racism (CHEER) designed to train students in antiracist research. Dr. Breny holds a visiting professorship in the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University and is an associate scientist in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. She was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global/Public Health in Izmir, Turkey, and is Immediate Past President of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Her coauthored book, Photovoice for Social Justice: Visual Representation in Action, is due out in January 2021.

Areas of Expertise

• Health and Medicine
• Race and Ethnicity
• Health Equity/Public Health

Methodology

• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Qualitative Methods
• Photovoice