Overview
The arts can transform health communication by leveraging aesthetic experiences, creative media, and community engagement. Rooted in evidence and ethics, the session will address how arts participation functions as a health behavior and social determinant of health. With a dynamic opening performance and expert panel discussion, the session will challenge attendees to expand their understanding of communication to include shared aesthetic experiences, arts-based methods, entertainment education, and historically powerful uses of the arts in activism and public health.

Key Focus Areas

• The science and impact of arts participation as a health behavior
• Examples of arts-based health communications
• Aesthetic experience and shared meaning in public health messaging
• The history of the arts in both harm and healing
• Arts prescribing in the U.S. 
• Data from the Arts for EveryBody initiative
• Entertainment education
• Ethics of collaboration with artists and communities