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ART IMPACT FOR HEALTH & SDGS Within the health sector, science and art are complementary forces. Together, they can create a dialogue between people, allowing for mutual understanding, empathy, and connection. After all, health professionals and artists are not so different – they are linked by a desire to understand the world and life itself. Through artistic exploration, we can work to build resilience in health for individuals, communities, and global systems.
ISABELLE WACHSMUTH VIEW CONTRIBUTOR’S BIO
The mission of the Art Impact for Health and SDGs initiative is to grow art and culture within the medical environment as an innovative strategy to build resilient individuals, communities, and health systems, creating a global creative and organic community movement that advances the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Health for All. Together, this community will utilize art as a tool to engender change, engaging a community of stakeholders to achieve the SDGs and Health for All through global leadership and the enduring principles of solidarity, caring, and equity within health. “As a sciencebased organization, WHO puts a lot of emphasis on evidence and data. At the same time, we must acknowledge that art has the power to inspire and communicate in ways that guidelines, graphs and charts don’t. To achieve our goals, we must use every tool at our disposal to change behaviors and drive impact.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization Art Impact for Health and SDGs with sustainable and long-term partnerships explores how art and all relevant impactful art initiatives/programmes at worldwide level contribute to build resilience in health at the individual, community, national, and global levels. Resilience is, at its core, a measure of how we deal with adversity. It is the ability of an individual to overcome the challenges of a cleft lip or palate.
