On August 8, 2019, Jill Sonke, Director of the University of Florida Center for Arts and Medicine presented the work of  Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America, national initiative, led by the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine in partnership with ArtPlace America.

 The initiative seeks to expand the intersections of arts, community development and public health through strategic cross-sector collaboration, discovery, translation, and dissemination; and is designed to accelerate innovation to build healthy communities in alignment with our national public health goals.