NAHCON

National Arts in Health Conference is a gathering of students, professionals, cultural organizations, healthcare institutions, Community members and stakeholders in health and community wellbeing.

Held once every two years, this event highlights the importance of community engagements in health. It focuses on advocacy for arts in health from local to the national level through education on arts and medicine, art practices in hospitals, healthcare centers and amongst communities. This event would engage government agencies, diplomatic missions in Nigeria, NGO’s, civic societies, art groups, faith-based organizations, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, artists, art enthusiasts, mental health advocates, musicians, dancers, poets, educators, researchers, curators, scholars, the media and other stakeholders in advocating for and advancing arts for our collective health across communities in Nigeria.

 

The inaugural NAHCON event would be a hybrid experience as Nigerians would be participating in both online and on-site activities.  The conference lineup includes paper/research presentations, art exhibitions, tour of hospital murals, art sessions in wellness rooms, self-therapeutic art activities, expos, community art support and services, conversations on mental health and social justice, collaborative arts projects between artists and healthcare professionals.

 

Objectives:

• Increase the awareness and the benefits of arts on community wellbeing
• Create collaborative engagements between artists and healthcare practitioners
• Engage diplomatic missions, government agencies, academic institutions, healthcare organizations, civic societies and members of the community in advancing arts in health in Nigeria
• Inaugurate the first Arts and Health Innovation hub in Nigeria
• Provide platform for public and private sector engagement in policy design on arts and health advocacy
• Facilitate a national arts and health programs which would benefit 1 million Nigerians in the next 10 years directly and indirectly
• Establish the National Arts in Health week in Nigeria

 

ACTIVITIES

SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION

April- May, 2021

Video, Fliers and the BIOS of speakers and distinguished guests would be shared on twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms

 

Partner organizations and other arts in health organizations in Nigeria and abroad would be tagged

US Mission Nigeria, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Arts in Medicine Fellowship, Mandela Washington Fellowship, Atlantic Fellowship and other online news platforms

 

PRESS CONFERENCE FOR NAHCON

May 2021

There would be Press conference at the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria first week of May, 2021

Newsprint media would be invited. This is to publicize and amplify the profile of speakers and the event line-up for the conference.

 

 

EVENT SCHEDULE (11:00am-3:00pm): Saturday May, 29, 2021

Welcome Address

Keynote Address

COVID Hero Awards

Tour of the National Sickle Cell Foundation Art Gallery

Panel Discussions: Health innovation, Intervention and Advocacy

Tour of the National Sickle Cell Foundation Art Gallery

Networking

 

Confirmed Guests and Speakers for NAHCON, May 29, 2021

Professor Akin Abayomi, Honourable Commissioner for Health Lagos State

Consul General Claire Pierangelo, US Consulate Lagos

Dr. Annette Akinsete, National Director Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria

United States Consul General, US Consulate Lagos

Kunle Adewale, Founder/Executive Director, Arts in Medicine Projects

Achenyo Idachaba-Obaro, Founder Mitimeth Nigeria, Board Member, Arts in Medicine Fellowship

Isaiah Owolabi, CEO, Nigerian Coalition Against HIV/AIDS

Dr. Abosede Lewu, Founder, Keep All Mothers Alive Initiative, KAMA/Girlsaide

 

Other Guest Speakers at NAHCON May 24-30, 2021

Senator, Dr. Eze Ajoku, President, Coalition of Societies for the Rights of Older Persons in Nigeria

Dr Jibril O: Abdulmalik, Chief Executive Officer/Founder, Asido Foundation

Ojoma Ochai, The British Council Regional Arts Director, Sub-Sahara Africa

Toluse Francis, Chief Operating Officer, Mentally Aware Nigeria (MANI)

Gerald Chukwuma, Nigerian Artist

Dr. Emeka Ogbolu, National Co-ordinator, Suicide Research and Prevention Initiative (SURPIN)

Amina Maikori, Nigerian Journalist, Writer and Communication Specialist

Julius Agbaje, Nigerian Artist and 2018 Arts in Medicine Fellowship Alumni

Natasha Ibori, Arts in Medicine Fellowship, Director of Partnership and Sustainability

Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor, Director of Policy, Nigerian Health Watch

Dominic Campbell, Co-Founder Creative Aging International, Dublin Ireland

Ms. Aduke Gomez, Art4 Life Initiative, Lagos State Ministry of Health

Tonie Emodi, Nigerian Artist

Ms Toyin Adeshola, Executive Director, Sickle cell Advocacy Management Initiative (SAMI)

Ola Awakan, Nigerian Journalist at TVC.

Ms. Olatoun Gabi-Williams, Trustee, Gabi Williams Alzheimer’s Association

Dr. Cheluchi Onyemelukwe Faculty, Gabi Williams and Managing Partner at Health Ethics and Law Consulting

Oyindamola Fakeye, Director of Special Projects, Arts in Medicine Fellowship

 

 Expected Participants at the event

Government agencies, diplomatic missions in Nigeria, NGO’s, civic societies, art groups, faith-based organizations, academic institutions, healthcare professionals, artists, art enthusiasts, mental health advocates, musicians, dancers, poets, educators, researchers, curators, scholars, and community members.

• Society of Nigerian Artists
• Nigerian Medical Association
• Lagos State Ministry of Health
• National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria
• Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria
• Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital
• National Association of Nurses and Midwives of Nigeria
• Mandela Washington Fellowship Association of Nigeria
• Nigerian Guild of Artists
• Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria
• Suicide Prevention Initiative (SURPIN)
• Mentally Aware of Nigeria (MANI)
• Down Syndrome Foundation Nigeria
• US Consulate Lagos, Nigeria
• Sip And Paint.ng
• Art4Life
• DiBadili Institute