Lise Saffran stumbled across health humanities when she experimented with using fiction to help a class of public health students imagine why someone might find it difficult to quit smoking.

Saffran, who teaches in the College of Health Sciences at MU and has degrees in both public health and creative writing, learned imagination and empathy could help combat significant health challenges and has been an advocate of health humanities ever since.

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