Christopher Bailey

Christopher Bailey is the co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, a collaboration between the World Health Organisation (WHO), NYU Steinhardt, Community Jameel and CULTURUNNERS, which coordinates and amplifies scientific research into the effectiveness of the arts in improving health and wellbeing, to promote its integration into mainstream healthcare and drive policy implementation across 193 UN member states.

Christopher is also the Arts and Health Lead at WHO. His Healing Arts Initiative which he co-founded, is looking at the evidence base for the health benefits of the arts by building up a global network of research centers to look at effective practice as well as the foundational science of why the arts may benefit physical, mental and social wellbeing. The emphasis of the program is supporting underserved communities around the world. The program also engages with the global media to promote pro health messaging and build solidarity on health issues through all media.

Educated at Columbia and Oxford University, as well as the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, after a career as a professional actor and playwright, Bailey joined the Rockefeller Foundation as their Research Manager, and from there was recruited to WHO where he led the Health Informatics work and later their online communications team before starting the Arts and Health program.

As an ambassador for the arts and health, Bailey has also performed original pieces such as 'Stage 4: Global Stories on Empathy and Health', and 'The Vanishing Point: A journey into Blindness and Perception', in venues around the world from the Hamwe Festival in Rwanda, to the Wellcome Collection in London, to the World Bank in DC, as well as Lincoln Center in NY, the LA Opera, LACMA, and Warner Bros Studios in LA, and the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco among many others.

News

Jameel Arts & Health Lab designates Carnegie Hall as its first Healing Arts centre of excellence

Jameel Arts & Health Lab and Scottish Ballet launch Healing Arts Scotland 2024

The Jameel Arts & Health Lab's Christopher Bailey describes how Johnny Cash's music helps dementia patients in Ireland

Christopher Bailey presents the Jameel Arts & Health Lab to the National Endowment for the Arts

WHO director-general Dr Tedros on the Jameel Arts & Health Lab at COP28 Health Day reception

World Health Organization, NYU Steinhardt, Community Jameel and CULTURUNNERS launch the Jameel Arts & Health Lab to measure the impact of the arts on health

Media

Scottish Ballet and Jameel Arts & Health Lab present healing arts scotland week

University Hospital Galway and Saolta Arts welcomed World Health Organisation arts and health lead Christopher Bailey

The World Health Organisation arts and health Lead Christopher Bailey will visit Galway tomorrow as part of Creative Brain Week.

The World Health Organisation arts and health lead Christopher Bailey will visit Galway tomorrow as part of Creative Brain Week

Exploring science and creativity at Creative Brain Week in Dublin

Creative Brain Week returns for 2024

Creative Brain Week welcomes World Health Organisation arts & health lead Chris Bailey

Muziek verzacht pijn: de Nederlandse zorgsector wil kunst en muziek aan het bed

Readout of White House Domestic Policy Council and National Endowment of the Arts 'Healing, bridging, thriving' summit on arts and culture in our communities

Groundbreaking arts summit propels national conversation on healing, bridging, and thriving

The arts span every facet of life – the White House just hosted a summit about it

When art met science at COP28

Art champions and health thinkers unite at COP28 for common good

Meetings in Saudi Arabia set roadmap for ‘Healing Arts Arabia’

Tracing health back to wholeness

Could the arts be good for your health?

The art of wellbeing: How Europe is using culture for its health benefits

Healing Arts Scotland 2024

NYU Steinhardt joins launch of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab/Lancet global series on health benefits of the arts

WHO, Lancet and Jameel Arts & Health Lab launch new research collaboration on the health benefits of the arts

Ground-breaking research series on health benefits of the arts

WHO 75 healing arts concert, Victoria Hall, Geneva follows launch of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab

WHO director general's opening remarks at WHO 75th anniversary concert at Victoria Hall

Can creative arts projects help people deal with trauma from personal or group conflict?

A digital archive launches on Google for Yazidi survivors about the role of art in promoting health

UN publishes digital archives created by Yazidi genocide survivors

The Art of Survival: A Yazidi Cultural Archive

Arts and minds: Healing-post conflict trauma in the Middle East

Events

UNGA Healing Arts Week 2024

Jameel Arts & Health Lab x Art Basel | Healing arts: Reimagining healthcare

Creative Brain Week 2024

Healing, bridging, thriving: A summit on arts and culture in our communities

COP28 | Arts, climate & health: Choreographing a climate of wellbeing

Jameel Arts & Health Lab: Healing Arts Arabia launch week

UNGA 78 | Reception for the Jameel Arts & Health Lab x Lancet series launch

UNGA 78 | WHO75 Wellbeing Concert

National arts in health week Nigeria

WHO 75: Healing arts concert

Jameel Arts & Health Lab launch

Yazidi Cultural Archives launch

Arts and minds: Healing post-conflict trauma in the Middle East

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