Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Applications Now Open
A National Call for Arts & Mental Health Innovation.
As part of Healing Arts Singapore — Asia's first national-level arts and health initiative — the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, Community Foundation of Singapore (CFS), and Temasek Foundation, has launched an open call for Pilot Projects to strengthen mental wellbeing through the arts, tackle health inequalities, and inform policy in Singapore and across the Western Pacific region.
Up to three pilot projects will be selected and accompanied by best practice evaluations guided by The THRivE Toolkit: Tools for Health Research and Evaluation in arts and heritage.
Each project evaluation will be overseen by a committee represented by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab Community Foundation of Singapore, Temasek Foundation, Institute of Mental Health Singapore, Community Jameel, the National University of Singapore through the Centre for Music and Health at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Singapore. It is hoped that evidence generated through the evaluations will help inform national, regional, and global arts and health policy.
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The Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Projects sit at the heart of a multi-year strategy (2025 to 2028) to strengthen mental wellbeing, tackle health inequalities, and shape policy across Singapore and beyond. Running from 18 May to 18 July 2026, the open call aims to identify pilot projects with the potential to deliver scalable, long-term impact for communities and individuals in most need of mental health support.
At a time of rising interest in the health benefits of the arts both in Singapore and across the world, these pilot projects will aim to identify innovative approaches while addressing gaps in evidence for arts-based mental health interventions. They will inform strategy for future scalability of arts and mental health interventions and position creativity as a catalyst for healthcare and public health system transformation.
"Healing Arts Singapore demonstrates how artistic expression can support healing, foster connections and amplify hope. At Temasek Foundation, we are catalysing and advancing the arts as a meaningful pathway to mental well-being – building partnerships, evidence and capability to enable compassionate, accessible cultural care to reach more individuals, families, and clinicians, across Singapore’s diverse society.”
“At a time when mental health challenges are more visible and multifaceted, initiatives like the Healing Arts Singapore Pilot Projects help us rethink how we support care and wellbeing, by bringing together the arts, health and community in meaningful ways. At CFS, we see how donor support makes it possible to test and refine these approaches, helping us better understand what works and how we can support people with greater care and intention."
“Healing Arts is a critical initiative under the Jameel Arts & Health Lab that is helping to identify and scale outstanding programmes that utilise art to tackle the most critical health challenges of our time. Over the next two years, Healing Art activations will span the United Kingdom, South Australia, Norway, the United States, Spain, Chile and Japan. Singapore is at the forefront, and these Pilot projects represent exactly the evidence-based approach that can shape arts and health policy across the Western Pacific and beyond. Community Jameel is proud to support the lab in providing a platform to scale these science-backed approaches to a global audience.”
