The 6th Annual Global Health Research Conference looks at connections between art, creativity and health.

Convergence of Art and Science: Global Health Perspectives is the theme of the 6th Annual Global Health Research Conference at the University of Toronto, June 2-3, 2008. The conference will offer Why Art Matters to Health, a keynote by James Orbinski, a research scientist at St. Michaels Hospital and associate professor of family and community medicine and political science at the University. Other artists and scientists will jointly address Technology, Place & Art, Imagination and Research, Music without Borders, Art, Spirit and Global Health, Medicine and Creativity, and more. The conference is accompanied by an exhibition organized by Stone Lobby Student Curators, a group that collaborates with the Centre and the Faculty of Medicine to organize art events exposing the link between art and science.

The conference is sponsored by the University of Toronto’s Centre for International Health and Hart House in collaboration with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Ontario Arts Council.

Text courtesy of Community Arts Network (www.communityarts.net)