Museums on prescription with Professor Helen Chatterjee Mental Health and Communities: The MARCH network

I talk to Professor Helen Chatterjee, Biologist and former curator of the UCL Grant Museum.

We talk about the role of museums in the community and her pioneering role in the rise of museums' involvement around mental health and health interventions, including her well-known Museums on Prescription projects. We also discuss the often very different forms of evidence in the world of the medical establishment compared with that of the community sector. We talk about the mechanisms behind which museum and arts interventions improve mental health; including discussing one of her studies on the use of arts by forcibly displaced migrants.

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Museums on prescription study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829217303878

Review of UK social prescribing schemes: http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/15655/

Study on arts + forcibly displaced migrants: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/2/e025465?utm_term=usage-042019&utm_content=consumer&utm_campaign=bmjopen&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=trendmd