The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine (UF CAM) is an academic program housed in the University of Florida College of the Arts. Established in 1996, the Center conducts research and education at the intersections of the arts, healthcare, and public health.[1][2][3][4][5] The Center's mission is to advance research, education, and practice in arts in health, locally and globally. [6][7]

The first university in the U.S. to offer a graduate degree in Arts in Medicine (AiM),[8] the Center also has undergraduate and graduate certificate programs, [9] as well as an annual Arts in Health (AiH) Intensive for professional development.[10][11]The Center has adapted to local and national needs with programs and initiatives such as SPARC352,[1][12][13][14] Rural Veterans Telerehabilitation Initiative (RVTRI),[8][15][16][17] and a COVID-19 arts response repository [5][18]and UF vaccine confidence initiative.[19][20]

History

The Center's beginnings are entwined with clinical work done by the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine (AIM) program and continues to have a close relationship with Shands AIM to this day. In 1995, co-directors (Dr. Rusti Brandman, Dr. John Graham-Pole, and Dr. Jill Sonke) created the nation's first university level courses in arts in healthcare. The following year, the Center for the Arts in Healthcare Research and Education (CAHRE)[21] became an operational part of UF's College of the Fine Arts (now University of Florida College of the Arts). [22]

By 2005, CAHRE boasted "the most extensive educational program in arts-in-healthcare in the country," offering courses with UF's School of Theatre and Dance, Honors Program, College of Nursing, and the College of Medicine.[23]

AIM for Africa was one of the first outreach programs facilitated by the Center. In 2006, the Center organized an exchange program between Mater Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya and UF Shands AIM and the Center. Artists from Kenya came to Shands for artist residencies, which included performances at Shands and lectures and workshops at UF's College of Nursing and School of Music. Two of Shands AIM artists in residence traveled to Nairobi to help initiate a program at Mater Hospital.[24]

Research

The Center for Arts in Medicine has been a leader in arts in health research since its inception.[11]

EpiArts lab

In partnership with Dr. Daisy Fancourt at University College London, the EpiArts Lab is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) [25] and Bloomberg Philanthropies [26][27] and is building on research conducted in the UK to explore the impacts of arts and cultural engagements on population health and the mechanisms involved, in the US.

One Nation/One Project

Along with the National League of Cities, the Center is a founding partner of One Nation/One Project (ONOP). ONOP brings together artists, local governments, and community health providers to help develop healthy communities.[28] The Center's involvement in ONOP is primarily around designing a national research protocol to measure impacts and outcomes of project activities and are designed to "advance equity, multi-cultural validity, participant ownership, and local research capacity, while prioritizing post-COVID health improvements".[29]

Interdisciplinary research lab

The Center's Interdisciplinary Research Lab is composed of undergraduate and graduate students, research associates, and faculty from various disciplines across UF. Student research assistants provide support for research associate and faculty projects, while also receiving mentorship around designing and executing their own research.[30]

COVID-19 response

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center created an open-access collection of resources, including projects, organizations, and professionals that focused on arts and health culture approaches to promote the importance and encouragement for COVID-19 safety measures. During this time, the Center collaborated with ArtPlace America and the National Network of Public Health Institutes to create a COVID-19 Arts Local Government Advisory Brief.[31] Additionally, the CAM Director at the time and now Director of Research Initiatives, Dr Jill Sonke, served as a subject matter expert to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) COVID-19 task force.[32][18] This was the first time the CDC Foundation recognized the impact of arts & culture in public health outcomes and supported arts and cultural organizations building vaccine confidence. [33]

During the pandemic, the Center sponsored seven arts-based vaccine confidence interventions on the UF campus to promote the COVID-19 vaccine. [20]

References

  1. ^ a b "Artists work next to doctors to help with healing in hospitals". pbs.org. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  2. ^ "When the Prescription is for a Dance Class, not a Pill". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  3. ^ "How the Arts Can Benefit Your Mental Health (No Talent Required)". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  4. ^ "Follow the Data Podcast: Can the Arts Keep You Healthy?". bloomberg.org. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  5. ^ a b "Can the Arts Help Drive Vaccinations? Yes, According to the CDC". hyperallergic.com. Retrieved 2025-01-17.
  6. ^ "About the Center". arts.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-08.
  7. ^ "Arts in Health - Division of Arts and Culture - Florida Department of State". dos.fl.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  8. ^ a b "Five Views of the Healing Power of the Arts". blog.americansforthearts.org. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  9. ^ "Programs & Degrees". arts.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  10. ^ "Arts In Health Intensive". arts.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  11. ^ a b "Health and the Arts: Social Innovation from the Center for Arts in Medicine". ibsafoundation.org. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  12. ^ "About - SPARC352". sparc352.org.
  13. ^ "Overview - SPARC352". arts.ufl.edu.
  14. ^ "University of Florida receives $750,000 grant to collaborate with historically Black neighborhoods". wuft.org.
  15. ^ "UF Center for Arts in Medicine Arts". dos.fl.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
  16. ^ "Spotlight on Creative Arts Therapies and Telehealth". arts.gov.
  17. ^ "National Endowment for the Arts Announces Expansion of Creative Forces Healing Arts Network". arts.gov.
  18. ^ a b "Engaging arts and culture for vaccine confidence : A guide for building programs and creative campaigns". stacks.cdc.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  19. ^ "Artists are mixing art and science to promote vaccine confidence among UF students". wcjb.com.
  20. ^ a b "University of Florida art projects to encourage COVID-19 vaccine confidence". gainesville.com.
  21. ^ "The state of the arts in healthcare in the United States". Arts & Health.
  22. ^ "History". arts.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-31.
  23. ^ "Arts & Healthcare" (PDF). Muse. 1 (1): 30.
  24. ^ GOLDMAN, REBECCA (June 23, 2006). "UF Arts in Medicine to spread music, dance and treatment to Nairobi". Gainesville Sun. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  25. ^ "NEA Research Labs". arts.gov.
  26. ^ "Arts on Prescription: Embracing a New Culture of Health with "Social Prescribing"". bloomberg.org. Retrieved 2025-01-15.
  27. ^ "Follow the Data Podcast: can the arts keep you healthy?". bloomberg.org.
  28. ^ "One Nation/One Project - A National Arts & Wellness Initiative". One Nation/One Project. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
  29. ^ "Research and Impact". One Nation/One Project. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
  30. ^ "Interdisciplinary Research Lab". arts.ufl.edu.
  31. ^ admin (2020-04-20). "Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America". ELGL. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  32. ^ "CDC partners with UF Center for Arts in Medicine to increase vaccine confidence through arts and culture". arts.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
  33. ^ "CDC Foundation Supports Arts and Cultural Organizations to Build Confidence in COVID-19 and Seasonal Influenza Vaccines | CDC Foundation". www.cdcfoundation.org. 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
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