Music and Health Innovation Studio

Throughout history, music has been connected to curative, therapeutic, and medical outcomes; this initiative will build on this understanding while approaching challenges through the lenses of music, technology, and health care.

The Innovation Studio supports the development, evaluation, refinement, and dissemination of innovative programs and technologies utilizing music therapy, music medicine, and/or community music practices, grounded in evidenced based research.  By fostering networks of mentors and resources, this studio incubates and accelerate the development of music informed, solution-focused resources for a wide range of healthcare challenges impacting our global communities.

Innovative solutions require cross-disciplinary approaches and the first of its kind Music and Health Innovation Studio empowers students of all backgrounds to confront contemporary health challenges through curiosity, creativity, and strategy. Using the Impact Thinking Model, the Innovation Studio provides participants with a well-rounded understanding of the fundamentals of clinical problem solving to human-centered product design within the music and health space.  Students will gain foundational knowledge, skills necessary to apply that knowledge to solutions in a practical context, and interface with leading experts within the music and health ecosystem

Developed by the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University, Impact Thinking is a translational research approach to enhance human potential in health, wellbeing, and learning through the arts. Beginning with a problem identification workshop and collaborative discovery process and concluding with dissemination and scaling, Impact Thinking is designed to build open-source capacity and expertise and a research-to-practice pipeline for arts + mind research focused on impact. Impact Thinking was developed through collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of nearly three dozen scientists and practitioners