Jill Sonke, Ph.D.

Jill Sonke, Ph.D., is research director in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), director of national research and impact for the One Nation/One Project initiative, co-director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab at UF, and currently serves as senior advisor to the CDC Vaccine Confidence and Demand Team on the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Task Force. She is an affiliated faculty member in the UF School of Theatre & Dance, Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, the Center for African Studies, the STEM Translational Communication Center and the One Health Center, and a consulting editor for Health Promotion Practice journal. With over 27 years of experience and leadership in the field of arts in health, Dr. Sonke is active in research, teaching, and international cultural exchange. She is a mixed-methods researcher with a current focus on population-level health outcomes associated with arts and cultural participation, arts in public health and the arts in health communication. She is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, a UF Most Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award, a UF Public Health Champions award, a UF Cross-Campus Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year Award and over 300 grants for her programs and research at the University of Florida.