Operating at the intersection of data journalism, art, and medical anthropology, and epistemological research, this project, titled "Data Storytelling: How Multi-level Disparities Emerge Throughout the Cycle of Medical Knowledge Production and Application in the Field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)," employs artistic data storytelling as a central modality to examine the multi dimensional disparities permeating the field of CAM.

 

Through five pieces of animated data art that illuminates the discursive, financial, educational, institutional, information, and socio-cultural disparity at each stage of the knowledge production and application cycle of CAM, this project scrutinizes the cyclic forces that hinders a medical field's acceptance and integration into mainstream healthcare, ranging from the discursive devaluation, the systemic underfunding and insufficient educational opportunities, insufficient access to reliable public information, to disparate social determinants of health that reinforce its peripheral status in both knowledge production and application. This data story ultimately underscores the urgent need for a systemic shift towards a more inclusive and integrative approach in health education and practice that tackle the obstacles to the development of CAM at each stage of the knowledge production cycle.