The Art of Hope, Healing, and Health

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DAISY FANCOURT

Daisy Fancourt is Professor of Psychobiology and Epidemiology at UniversityCollege London and Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group. Her research focuses on the effects of social behaviors on health, including loneliness, social isolation, social and community assets, arts and cultural engagement, and social prescribing. Daisy has received over £30m in research funding. And her work has been recognized with over two dozen national and international research awards, including being named a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Daisy has published 300 peer-reviewed

papers and given over 40 keynotes around the world. She is listed by Clarivate as one of the most highly cited scientists in the world.

In the field of arts and health, she authored the World Health Organisation’s global evidence review on arts in health, published in 2019, which synthesized the findings from over 3,500 published studies on arts and health and made policy recommendations to 53 countries. The report is the most read WHO evidence report ever published and was named Global Aesthetic Achievement of the Year 2019. Daisy is Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Arts and Health, as well as a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Cultural Insights and an Expert Scientific Advisory to UK Government on arts, culture and heritage. She chairs the

Scientific Committee of the WHO Jameel Arts Health Lab based at NYU—a $7 million global programme focused on scaling up arts and health work internationally.

Daisy Fancourt is also an expert in broader social factors and health. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Daisy led the multi-award winning Covid Social Study – the UK’s largest study into the psychological and social impact of the virus – and directed the COVID-Minds Network: an international network of over 170 longitudinal studies exploring the global mental health impact of the pandemic. She was a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission and the World Health Organisation Expert Group on mental health in COVID-19.

Daisy received the prestigious British Science Association Award for Arts and Sciences and the BBC named her a New Generation Thinker. Her research has been covered in over 2,000 newspaper articles globally and she has contributed to over 100 radio and TV programmes. She has presented her own BBC Radio 3 programmes and podcasts and BBC Ideas programmes on arts and health, including a short film on arts on prescription that went viral in 2018, receiving over 1 million views. She also writes for popular outlets including the Conversation, BMJ Opinion, and the Guardian.

Daisy Fancourt, author of "Art Cure"

About our Keynote Speaker: Daisy Fancourt

Shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

A groundbreaking exposé showing how the arts―alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature―are the forgotten fifth pillar of health.

From cradle to grave, engaging in the arts has remarkable effects on our health and well-being. Music supports the architectural development of children’s brains. Artistic hobbies help our brains to stay resilient against dementia. Dance and magic tricks build new neural pathways for people with brain injuries. Arts and music act just like drugs to decrease depression, stress, and pain, reducing our dependence on medication. Going to live music events, museums, exhibitions, and the theater decreases our risk of future loneliness and frailty. Engaging in the arts improves the functioning of every major organ system in the body, even helping us to live longer.

This isn’t sensationalism, it’s science: the results of decades of studies gathering data from neuroimaging, molecular biomarkers, wearable sensors, cognitive assessments, and electronic health records. From professor Daisy Fancourt, an award-winning scientist and science communicator and director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Centre for Arts and Health, this book will fundamentally change the way you value and engage with the arts in your daily life and give you the tools to optimize how, when, and what arts you engage in to achieve your health goals. The arts are not a luxury in our lives. They are essential.

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The Art of Hope, Healing, and Health: A National Arts in Health Conference

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Daisy Fancourt, author of "Art Cure"

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The Art of Hope, Healing, and Health: A National Arts in Health Conference

Call for Presenters

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DAISY FANCOURT

Daisy Fancourt, author of "Art Cure"

About our Keynote Speaker: Daisy Fancourt

Register to Experience Art3H

EARLY BIRD RATE

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ARTIST RATE

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Learn. Connect. Experience. Celebrate.

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