Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
Friday 25 September 2026 | 9AM - 12:30PM Urban Health Plan, El Nuevo San Juan Health Center, 1065 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY, 10459
Urban Health Plan (UHP) invites you to an event exploring social prescribing, a model of care that enables health professionals to formally prescribe free or low-cost non-clinical community activities, such as the arts, movement, nature, and volunteering, to improve patient health. Rooted in health equity and cross-sector collaboration, social prescribing addresses the social drivers of health, including social connection, and works alongside medical care rather than replacing it. Join us to learn more about UHP's work in this space, including community partnerships, provider participation, and how it connects with local artists and empowers its patients along the way.
The morning will include networking, live performances, and a panel discussion featuring voices from across the Bronx community. Register today for this inspiring look at how creativity, connection, and care are coming together to improve health outcomes.
Paloma Hernandez is the President and CEO of Urban Health Plan, one of the largest community health care systems in New York State. She serves as Chairperson of the National Association of Community Health Centers and is a nationally recognized leader in community-based health care, as well as the visionary behind UHP's groundbreaking work in Arts and Health.
One of the driving forces behind UHP's social prescribing program, Dr. Jennifer Genuardi, Medical Director and VP of Medical Affairs, brings a career defined by expanding access, advancing clinical education, and building a culture of compassionate care at Urban Health Plan.
Jill Sonke, PhD, is a US Cultural Policy Fellow with Stanford University, Co-director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London, and Director of Research Initiatives and a Research Professor in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF). She is an artist, cultural strategist, and mixed-methods researcher, and is the recipient of over 350 grants and awards for her programs and research at the intersection of the arts and health.
Katherine Miranda (they/he) is a Bronx-based Latinx, non-binary multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work transforms objects from family, community, and the natural world into mythical images and artifacts that honor ancestral and communal history; reimagining family stories into alternative worlds and encouraging others to reflect on the legacies they inherit and leave behind.
Lucia Warck-Meister is the Longwood Art Gallery Director at the Bronx Council on the Arts. She holds an MFA from UNA University of the Arts in Buenos Aires, and her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museo del Barrio and the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, and at the Museum of the Americas in Washington, DC. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, and has held artist residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Sculpture Space in Utica, and Governors Island's TransborderArt program.
Scarlet Gomez (she/they) is a queer Dominican Bronx-based poet, writer, and zine-maker whose work focuses on themes of identity, ancestry, new futures, and sapphic desires; she’s the founder of Bachatéame, Poet! and Poetry House LLC.
Urban Health Plan is one of the largest federally qualified health center systems in New York State proudly serving communities in the Bronx, Corona, Queens, and Central Harlem. Founded in 1974 by Dr. Richard Izquierdo, a life-long community resident of the South Bronx who dedicated his life to social justice and achieving health equity for all, today, the organization serves more than 89,000 patients who make above 430,000 visits.
Since 1974, we have been proudly bringing high-quality healthcare to New York families and have received national recognition for our approaches to community health care and disease prevention.
Today, we’re just as committed. Our network of community-based, patient-centered health centers brings state-of-the-art technology and comprehensive, coordinated care to all– from infants to seniors and everybody in between. All our health care facilities offer native Spanish-speaking providers, plus several other languages to serve our diverse community. We pride ourselves on providing a safe, warm, welcoming, judgment-free environment.
Our sites in the South Bronx serve the residents of Mott Haven, Morrisania, Hunts Point, Longwood, Third Avenue, and Soundview. Our Plaza del Sol Family Health Center is in Corona, Queens, serving patients in the surrounding communities of Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. Our CitiCares Community Health Center serves residents in Central Harlem and surrounding neighborhoods.
