U.S. Cultural Policy Fellows

Jill Sonke, PhD, is an artist-researcher and cultural strategist. She serves as Director of Research Initiatives and a Research Professor in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), Co-director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London, and recently served as Director of National Research and Impact for the One Nation/One Project initiative. She serves as an Affiliated Researcher in the WHO’s Jameel Arts & Health Lab and served during the COVID-19 pandemic as a senior advisor to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is an affiliated faculty member in the UF School of Theatre & Dance, the Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, and the Center for African Studies, as well as an editorial board member for Health Promotion Practice journal. Dr. Sonke is a dancer and an amateur musician, a mixed methods researcher with over 100 publications, and has 30+ years of leadership in the field of arts in health. She is the recipient of numerous awards and over 350 grants for her programs and research in the arts and health.

Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF)

EpiArts Lab