Arting Health for Impact: Street art engaging communities in Botswana, South Africa and India

Arting Health for Impact is an international, collaborative public engagement partnership between Botswana (Infers Group PTY Ltd), South Africa (Interfer PTY Ltd) and India (Wellcome-DBT India Alliance - an affiliation between the Wellcome Trust and the Indian Government’s Department of Biotechnology).

The project used co-creation methods that allowed all partners - artists, health scientists, civil society groups, policy makers and media, to interact and share their respective knowledge. The output of this co-creation was culturally relevant street art installations focused on community-specific public health concerns. 

The socio-economic similarities as well as the cultural differences between the three countries provided a fascinating platform for a collaboration, paving the way for comparative studies on street art as a public engagement tool in developing nations. The project ran simultaneously in all partner countries, providing invaluable insight into how cross-country public engagement collaborations can work. The hope is that it will initiate other projects, including further cross-country collaborations.

^{Published report                                                                                         Learnings on best practices for communication and engagement in  
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Arting Health for Impact: Botswana (Hypertension, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS)

Arting Health for Impact: South Africa (Mental Health)

Arting Health for Impact: India (Mental Health and the food system and its impact on human and environmental health)

_{Images by: Nabeel Petersen and Khwezi Nsibande}