International Health Humanities Network Membership

Daisy Fancourt is Senior Research Associate/Wellcome Research Fellow in the Psychobiology Group, Department of Behavioural Science and Health at UCL. Daisy completed her PhD in psychoneuroimmunology at UCL, undertaking postdoctoral work in the Centre for Performance Science (a partnership of the Royal College of Music and the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London) before returning to UCL in 2017. Alongside her research, she has worked for over 7 years in the NHS, including at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital managing arts and clinical innovations programmes, working alongside clinicians to devise interventions to improve patient experience and clinical outcomes.

Daisy is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health and the Deputy Chair of their Special Interest Group on Arts and Health. She also established and chairs the International Arts Health Early Career Research Network. She holds honorary positions in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and the Centre for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida. Daisy is a BBC New Generation Thinker and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper.