Resources

WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS)

Policy Brief

World Health Organization. (2019). Intersectoral action: the arts, health and well-being: sector brief on arts (No. WHO/EURO: 2019-3578-43337-60798). World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

World Health Organization. (2026). Role of the arts and culture in addressing the health impacts of climate change: Behavioural and Cultural Insights policy brief series (No. WHO/EURO: 2026-13261-53035-82772 (PDF)). World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe.

World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (2021). Supporting the mental health and well-being of the health and care workforce. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/340220. 

European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Maassen, Alison & Nurm, Ülla-Karin (2025). Social, green and arts prescriptions for health: harnessing the power of community interventions for well-being. Eurohealth, 31(2), 12 – 15. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/382610. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO

Institution/ National Arts and Health Organisations

Singapore

• Arts and Health Repository Singapore

United Kingdom

• National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing
• London Arts in Health Forum
• National Alliance for Museums, Health & Wellbeing
• Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance

United States

• National Organisation for Arts in Health

Australia

• Australian Centre for Arts and Health
• Institute for Creative Health

Ireland

• Arts and Health Ireland

Canada

• Art Health Network Canada

Academic Institution/ Research Centres

United Kingdom

• Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University
• Arts For Health Manchester Metropolitan University
• Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health –  Canterbury Christchurch University
• Health Humanities, University College London

Canada

• Health Arts and Humanities Progamme, University of Toronto

USA

• International Academy for Design & Health (IADH)
• Centre for Arts in Medicine, University of Florida
• Health Humanities Laboratory, Global Health Institute – Duke University
• Art and Global Health Centre at UCLA

Design For Health

• Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, UK 
• Design For Health and Wellbeing Lab, Auckland University of Technology, AUCKLAuckland, New Zealand. 
• Visualising Health, University of Michigan
• Visualising Mental Health, University of South Australia

Arts and Health Research Networks

• International Health Humanities Network
• Royal Society for Public Health Arts, Health and Wellbeing Special Interest Group
• Arts Health Early Career Research Network
• Centre for Medical Humanities Postgraduate and Early Career Network

Medical Humanities

• The polyphony

Arts in Medicine/ Nursing

• Performance for Care
• Performing Medicine

Art Toolkit

• Arts, Ageing and Wellbeing Toolkit (2020), Nanyang Technological University – Agency for Integrated Care (Singapore)
• Art for Wellness Toolkit (2018), Agency for Integrated Care (Singapore) 
• Arts For All Resources, National Arts Council Singapore

Music Toolkit

• Music for Dementia 2020

Books & Publications 

• The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities, Paul Crawford, Brian Brown and Andrea Charise (Eds)

• Around the world in 80 creative ageing projects, The Baring Foundation

• GeoHumanities and Health, Atkinson, Sarah, Hunt, Rachel (Eds.)
• Arts in Health: Designing and researching interventions, Daisy Fancourt

• Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing – International perspectives on practice, policy and research Edited by Stephen Clift and Paul M. Camic

• Museums, Health and Well-Being, Helen Chatterjee, Guy Noble

• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry Report 2017, Creative Health: The Arts for Health andWellbeing

• Spotlight on Cultural Policy Series: Roundtable on the Development of Community Arts in Singapore, Organisers: Institute of Policy Studies – National University of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, (15 March 2017). Download the published report (P.97 – 100).

• Michael Tan, Feeling Alive!: Participatory Visual Arts Programme and Vitality in A Nursing home – A Singapore Case Study, 5th International Health Humanities Conference, University of Seville, Seville, Spain (15 – 17 September 2016). Download Conference proceeding. (p.245 -254)
• Paul Rodger, Does Design Care? (2017)

Photography and Social Practice

• Photography as a Social Practice

Research Support Resource

• Vitae

Practice Framework

• Tan, Michael Towards a Caring Practice reflections on the processes and components of arts-health practice
• Low, Felicia Person-Centred Arts Practices with Communities

• Warren, Katey, Burton, Alexandra, Fancourt, Daisy, INNATE Framework

Arts and Health Code of Ethics

Artist Payment Guide

• Arts Resource Hub, Singapore
• Visual Artist Ireland- Payment Guidelines for Professional Visual Artists
• Artist Union England

Evaluation 

• Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance 
• Creative and Credible
• Resources on Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement – National Endowment for the Arts
• Arts for health and wellbeing: An evaluation framework
• Evaluation Principles Centre for Cultural Value
• Arts For All National Arts Council Singapore
• Arts and Health Evaluation: Navigating the Landscape, The Social Biobehavioural Research Group, University College London, UK

Wellbeing related

• Wellbeing Measure Bank
• Warick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scales
• MYCaW – Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing
• CHIME Framework

Museum related

• UCL Museum Wellbeing Measures