Dr Jess Bone is a Research Fellow in Epidemiology/Statistics in the Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London (UCL). She is currently working in the EpiArts Lab, a collaboration between UCL and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine. Her work aims to understand the population-level public health benefits of the arts by exploring associations between arts and cultural engagement and longitudinal health outcomes in US cohort studies. Jess has a background in mental health research and completed her PhD in the Division of Psychiatry at UCL, where she investigated explanations for the gender difference in depression during adolescence. Jess can be followed on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jessicakbone.
