Lenna: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Creative Health is advancing well-being and access to preventative and sustainable health. We do this by forging a more equitable, empowered, and resilient world through therapeutic uses of the arts. We are culturally changing well-being and health by bringing together evidence-based science, arts therapies, and technology to help individuals and communities live better around the globe. Growing bodies of research show that engaging in the arts influences both adult and child brain development, and improves social skills, emotional regulation, capacity for self-expression, and ability to pay attention and learn—all assets associated with health and well-being over a lifetime. Our work is to share these methods with the world.
Eva: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! As many as one in three students in the US suffer "period poverty," meaning they don't have period care items to take care of their periods. The products are super expensive and families struggle to pay for rent, food, and transportation costs and so often can't afford to buy tampons or pads. The result? Students stay home from school when on their periods, risk their health by using supplies for too long, or use make-do supplies like toilet paper or rags. What The Kwek Society does is get period care items into schools with significant indigenous populations so that all students affected can stay in school and maintain good health and sense of dignity when on their periods. We also educate students about periods and puberty.
Jul 20, 2023
Posted by: Shikha Tandon
Corey Peak,
SDG 1,
SDG 10,
SDG 13,
SDG 2,
SDG 3,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
SDG 6,
USA,
WA
Corey: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! I work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where we’re committed to fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. We call ourselves ‘impatient optimists’ – encouraged by the progress humanity has made and eager to accelerate it by making sure everyone shares in those gains. I’m part of a team and global effort to eradicate poliovirus. Eradicating a virus is hard – so hard that it’s only been done once before for a human disease. Eradicating smallpox is among the most impactful and inspiring things humanity has come together to accomplish. Our goal is to do the same with polio.
