Launched by World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, the Steinhardt School at New York University (NYU), Community Jameel and CULTURUNNERS, the Jameel Arts & Health Lab represents the first major arts and health initiative in WHO history to drive policy change across 193 UN member states. Fady Jameel, vice chairman of Community Jameel said the lab will "leverage research to advance the integration of the arts into mainstream care and improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people across the world".