Please join us on Wednesday, 21st May, 2025, for a talk hosted by the Centre for Health, Humanities and Science (CHHS) by Professor Helen Chatterjee, UCL: ‘What is the future of Creative Health research?’
We are honoured to be able to host Professor Helen Chatterjee to talk to us about Creative Health research. Professor Chatterjee is a leading figure in this area. She has helped bring together academic, public health, and governmental institutions. She co-founded the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance. She is an Advisor to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing, and is a Founding Trustee of the National Centre for Creative Health. Helen's research has won numerous awards including a Special Commendation from Public Health England for Sustainable Development and the 2018 AHRC-Wellcome Health Humanities Medal and Leadership Award.
What is the future of Creative Health research?
Prof Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Human & Ecological Health, UCL / Research Programme Director for Health Inequalities, AHRC
Creative Health can be defined as creative approaches and activities which have benefits for our health and wellbeing. Activities can include visual and performing arts to literature, crafts, and creative activities in nature like gardening. Creative health might also involve a creative approach to tackling complex problems within public health and health systems. Creative health research has typically encompassed arts and health, medical / health humanities, arts therapies, as well as a raft of wider inter-, trans- and multi-disciplinary perspectives, data and methods. This talk will explore past and current research, policy and practice developments in the field of creative health. Further it will explore novel paradigms regarding the links between human health and the health of the environment, arguing for the development of a new field of study: Creative Planetary Health.
Those wishing to know more of the policy background to Creative Heath may find the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arts, Health and Wellbeing's 2017 report.