Watch this conversation from the chairman of the Culture, Health and Well Being Alliance (CHWA) Rosie Dow, Prof Helen Chatterjee and Dr Karen Mak (UCL).
Rosie Dow is a freelance consultant supporting people with strategy, leadership and data, specialising in arts and health alongside her role as a Director of CHWA. She comes to this after over a decade working in leadership roles in this sector, first in delivery and latterly in funding, coaching and research. The organisations she's worked for, and with, include Breathe Arts Health Research, Arts Council of Wales, Nesta, UCL and Cardiff University. She's also a choir leader and musician when she finds the time!
Prof Helen Chatterjee: Helen is a Professor of Human and Ecological Health at University College London and Programme Director for UCL's Masters in Creative Health. Helen is also currently Research Programme Director for Health Inequalities with the Arts and Humanities Research Council - she sits on the Board of Trustees for the National Centre for Creative Health and has been involved in CHWA since its inception.
Dr Karen Mak is a Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology & Statistics in the Department of Behavioural Science & Health at University College London. Her research focuses on the association between arts and cultural community engagement and wellbeing using nationally representative data and cohort studies.