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Tasha Golden

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Dir of Research, Sr Arts-Health Research Scientist
International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Dir of Research, Sr Arts-Health Research Scientist

International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Creativity and Wellbeing

Tasha Golden, PhD is Director of Research at the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University, and a national leader and consultant in arts + public health. A public health scientist who used to be a touring songwriter, Golden studies impacts of the arts, music, aesthetics, and creativity on health and well-being. She holds a PhD in Public Health Sciences, and has served as an advisor on several national and international health initiatives. She's published extensively on intersections of creativity and the arts with wellbeing, and is adjunct faculty for the University of Florida’s Center for Arts in Medicine. She recently led the pilot evaluation of CultureRx in Massachusetts: the first arts-on-prescription model in the U.S.

As singer-songwriter for the critically acclaimed band Ellery, Golden toured full-time in the US and abroad, and her songs appear in feature films and TV dramas (ABC, SHOWTIME, FOX, NETFLIX, etc). She is a published poet (Humanist Press) and founder of Project Uncaged: an arts-based health intervention for incarcerated teen women that amplifies their voices in community and political discourses.

Golden’s diverse background drives her success as an international speaker and thought leader. She gives dynamic talks and facilitates workshops for artists, businesses, researchers, practitioners, and more—helping them enhance and reimagine their work. As a consultant, she helps leaders and organizations draw on the science of “arts and health” to further their goals.

Equity & Innovation

As a public health researcher and innovator, Dr. Tasha Golden's work regularly asks, "What do we not know?" as a means of identifying whose voices, ideas, cultures, or experiences are excluded in a given project, AND how exclusions may be affecting project data or plans. She gets audiences thinking creatively about how inclusivity not only advances equity, but also fundamentally expands what we're able to know, do, and change.

"Without new, creative approaches, our data may not be incorrect, but they will be incomplete. They may not be inaccurate, but they will be inadequate."

Dr. Golden has recently presented and consulted for the national “Creating Healthy Communities” Initiative (UF + ArtPlace America), Grantmakers in Health, the Trust for Public Land, and POLITICO’s 2019 Annual Health Care Summit in Amsterdam. She's sought to present and provoke new ideas, and to help organizations develop innovative strategies that further their goals.

Golden specializes in theorizing future and/or population-level implications of new research or products, including implications related to equity and power, and she uniquely wraps studies of culture and social discourses into the advancement of health and human thriving. Her own research has generated new methods for studying sensitive topics (such as violence) among vulnerable populations (such as minors).

Golden’s visionary work is bolstered by her multidisciplinary training--music, writing, rhetoric, health--and by her career as an artist and entrepreneur. Golden toured full-time as singer-songwriter for the critically acclaimed band Ellery, and her songs have been in feature films and TV dramas. She is also the founder of Project Uncaged: an arts-based health intervention for incarcerated teen women that amplifies their voices in health and justice advocacy. (projectuncaged.org)

Holding a PhD in Public Health Sciences, Golden draws on her diverse background to stimulate and develop new ideas, partnerships, products, and frameworks that optimize well-being, equity, knowledge, and communications.

Health Equity & Innovation

As a public health researcher and innovator, Dr. Tasha Golden studies the impacts of environments, arts, sociocultural discourses, and aesthetics on health equity, research, and practice. She's recently presented and consulted for the national “Creating Healthy Communities” Initiative (UF + ArtPlace America), Grantmakers in Health, the Trust for Public Land, and POLITICO’s 2019 Annual Health Care Summit in Amsterdam.

Dr. Golden is sought internationally to present and provoke new ideas, and she helps organizations develop innovative strategies that further their goals. Centering health equity and public mental health, her own research has generated new approaches to study design and project development.

Dr. Golden specializes in theorizing future and/or population-level implications of new research or products, and she uniquely wraps studies of culture and social discourses into the advancement of health and human thriving.

Golden’s visionary work is bolstered by her multidisciplinary training--music, writing, rhetoric, health--and by her career as an artist and entrepreneur. Golden toured full-time as singer-songwriter for the critically acclaimed band Ellery, and her songs have been in feature films and TV dramas. She is a published poet and the founder of Project Uncaged: an arts-based health intervention for incarcerated teen women that amplifies their voices in health and justice advocacy. (projectuncaged.org)

Holding a PhD in Public Health Sciences, Golden draws on her diverse background to stimulate and develop innovative ideas, partnerships, products, and frameworks that optimize well-being, equity, and communications.

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Presentations (4)
"'How We Human' - How creativity and the arts support health and well-being."

How have we defined health or wellbeing, and what might we be missing? How do arts and culture affect our health, and how could we enhance their benefits? And what might any of this have to do with the most challenging societal questions we face today? This talk draws on Dr. Golden's unique research into the links between well-being and the arts, and on years of practice as both a career artist and a community-engaged health scientist. Attendees leave this oft-requested talk having transformed their understanding of what health is and includes... and with a sense of reconnection with humanity, creativity, and possibility.

“This is absolutely awe inspiring. I could listen to this all day.” (Attendee)

"Leveling Up: Applying the science of art's health impacts to improve [ X ]"

(e.g., health, creativity, workplace culture, education, partnerships, etc.) This talk takes many forms, depending on the issue, problem, or inspired idea the group/client seeks to improve. It explores questions such as, How could we incorporate the benefits of the arts into our work? How could we bolster our [creativity / workplace culture / education / partnerships] by incorporating arts and creativity? How would greater attention to the effects of the arts advance or transform our work? Given Golden's history as both an artist and a scientist, the information she shares about scientific findings is exciting—delivered with care and passion, interwoven with story. Attendees leave inspired by the possibilities that come with diving into arts and creativity... AND practical, actionable ideas they can begin applying immediately.

“As both a leading public health scientist and working artist, Tasha Golden has so much rich knowledge to share with a variety of audiences.” (Client/Host)

"Creating Mental Health"

How we can support mental health & wellbeing with creativity & humanity? Drawing on her work as an artist, health scientist, & educator, as well as her lived experience of depression, Golden digs into what mental health is, and how the arts have been shown to help. Events explore myriad health benefits of arts & creativity, but in keeping with Dr. Golden's style, they're not always what you expect! Her work illuminates why we seek art when troubled, & why the arts help us talk about difficult experiences. Whether you hope to shore up individual health, improve workplace or educational settings, or help address the growing mental health crisis, Dr. Golden's links between art & mental health lead this to be one of her most requested topics. (NOTE: Dr. Golden also provides trainings in trauma-informed practice to orgs of all kinds.)

“the presenter was absolutely amazing - so concise, packed a lot of information into an excellent presentation” (Attendee)

"Creating Value, Demonstrating Impact"

Do you need help identifying & communicating the value of your artistic, creative, or aesthetic product or work? Tailored to each client/audience, & often taking a workshop or professional-development modality, these popular talks explore questions like: How is your creative or arts-based product/work bolstering well-being? How might you get better at communicating these benefits of your work? Can you enhance them? Can you measure & document them? (Spoiler: Yes!) How can we rethink 'data' and 'evidence' to authentically reflect our work to our audiences? Attendees leave feeling grounded in a fresh understanding of their work, and with ready, actionable steps they can take to heighten and communicate their impacts.

“In Dr. Golden, you gain not only a prepared and passionate speaker, but an empathetic advocate who shows up fully with her wisdom, education, & experiences.” (Client/host)

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Tasha Golden

Books & Articles (9)

Once You Had Hands
Humanist Press,
2015
Arts and Health: Four Big Ways to Improve Health through the Arts [EBOOK]
tashagolden.com,
2022
Social prescription in the US: A pilot evaluation of Mass Cultural Council's “CultureRx”
From Absence to Presence: Arts and Culture Help Us Redefine “Health”
Creating Healthy Communities through Cross-sector Collaboration
The use of music in the treatment and management of serious mental illness: A global scoping review of the literature
Innovating Health Research Methods, Part II: Arts-Based Methods Improve Research Data, Trauma-Responsiveness, and Reciprocity
CultureRx': Evaluation of a Social Prescription Pilot ['Arts on Prescription' in the US]
Generating youth dialogue through the literary arts: A citywide youth health collaboration in the U.S

Expertise (34)

Health & Well-being
Social & Political
Science
Entertainment & Art
Leadership
Health Equity Arts and Health Arts and Culture Encouraging Creativity and Innovation Creativity Collaborative Innovation Knowledge Discovery Mental health Community Health elevating youth voice Student voice Research Aesthetics rethinking applied creativity Creative arts Creative Expression Creative Thinking Critical Thinking Innovation Collaboration Art for Health Juvenile justice Health and Well-being mental health stigma Reducing stigma inclusive research Arts and Social justice using the arts in the community
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