Global Health Artists Share their First Impressions

Miriam Syowia Kyambi and James Muriuki,  the two Kenyan artists  taking part in the Art In Global Health Project recently shared their first impressions of the Programme and their Project here. The two, who will spend a year as artists in residence in Kilifi, made an exploratory visit to the Programme between 30th April and 5th May 2012. See full story here.

The Art in Global Health Project is a new initiative launched by the Wellcome Collection to engage the public in Wellcome Trust-funded health research. The project is designed to host six artists for up to one year at six Wellcome Trust-funded research centres in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam and the UK. Malawian artist,  Elson Kambalu based at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme also shared his first impressions here  while Zwelethu Mthethwa based at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa shared his first impressions here.