HeART LAB VISION

At HeART Lab, we honour the strengths and knowledge of people and communities through co-design across the research cycle. Our methods harness art, research, and technology to work towards health equity – Health Equity, Art, Research, Technology. We view compassion as an action word, and advocate for equity as we move research to practice, together. 

Equity in healthcare means the absence of unfair differences in health and wellness between groups of people. These differences in wellness and health are often the result of social, economic, or geographic disparities. We explore topics from multiple perspectives and tell stories to understand these differences and unfair disadvantages, and to create strength and resilience by learning with people and communities.

Our Principles:

Co-design, Compassion, Equity

Connection

HeART Lab brings people together.

Patients, health providers and artists engage to ask new questions, discover knowledge, and create needed change in healthcare and beyond.

Inquiry

Together, we collaborate to explore, critique, and research questions that are important for patients, health providers, and communities. 

Finding & Creating Meaning, Together

We use the arts to help to find answers and deepen insight into some of our most urgent questions.

Healthcare & Social Change

We collaborate to bring this knowledge to providers, policy makers, and communities.