UK Arts & Health Economic Report

Culture and Heritage Capital
Monetising the impact of Culture and Heritage on Health and Wellbeing
NYU Steinhardt and the Jameel Arts & Health Lab hosted a series of events celebrating this report, which had been commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DMCS) and published by Frontier Economics. The report found that engaging in arts and culture was good for health and generated £8bn a year in improvements to people’s quality of life and higher productivity.
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Speakers

Daisy Fancourt, PhD
Head of the Social Biobehavioural Research Group
Nisha Sajnani, PhD
Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Jack H. Knott
Gale and Ira Drukier Dean, NYU Steinhardt

Christopher Bailey
Founding Co-director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Stephen Stapleton
Founding Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab

Shoba Gayathri Nahappan
NYU Steinhardt Dean’s Alumni Advisory Board

Amalia Restrepo
Researcher, London Arts & Health