Creating Healthy Communities through Cross-sector Collaboration

This white paper by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine and ArtPlace America frames the value of arts and culture for advancing health and wellbeing in communities, and offers examples of impactful cross-sector collaborations that engage arts and culture to address five critical public health issues: collective trauma, racism, social isolation and exclusion, mental health, and chronic disease. These concrete examples inform the paper’s recommendations and call to action.