Expert Insights: What is lived experience?

The power of lived experience in health care is essential for understanding humanness, and it can help others heal. Bridget S. Murphy, DBH, talks about her lived experience and how she uses it in the classroom to make complex material more personable for students.
She is the education and workforce research director at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction and an assistant research professor at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Arizona Center for Rural Health.