In Marwa Farag's PUBH 807 Health Program Planning & Evaluation course, students were required to present a ‘Guest Lecture' for thirty minutes during one of the classes. Instead of doing the standard PowerPoint presentation, Prachi Bandivadekar, Maclean Yaw Danso, Sunisha Neupane, Anar Damji and Stephanie Ortynsky decided to take a different route of writing, filming, acting and editing their own documentary. The topic they chose was the Program Logic Model and thus chose an article Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby written by the University of Saskatchewan's own Angela Bowen.
The group did a summary of the article by acting out the key components of making a logic model in the first place. A logic model is a diagrammatic representation of the activities and programs an organization does to fulfill its overarching long- and short-term objectives. Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby is a program put on by the Saskatoon Health Region that assists at-risk pregnant women in the area. It provides both pre- and post-natal support to provide optimal pregnancy outcomes and healthy lifestyle choices to families in their own environments. Prachi took on the role of the lead researcher Angela Bowen, while Anar was a fictional nurse named ‘Nurse Anna' who dealt with the clients first-hand. The group created a fictional expert on the program logic model named ‘Dr. Maclean' who was acted by Maclean. Sunisha played two roles as both Dr. Maclean's Teaching Assistant ‘Tammy' and an at-risk pregnant mother named ‘Sylvia Whitehawk.' Since the group approached the film as a 20/20 episode, Stephanie served as the host ‘Barbara Walters'.
Login