Professor Marion Lynch BEM RN RMN PDHSc FRSPH FRSA

What happens when disabled people claim the frame, as artists, subjects, & storytellers? 🖼️ Launched today #CrippingTheLens is a 50-image virtual exhibition reimagining how we see gender & #disability. 📸 Explore now: bit.ly/44FvuDf #DisabilityPrideMonth #ThisIsGender

Celebrating our founder Della Fish, on what would have been her 82nd Birthday. linkedin.com/posts/the-dell…

🎨🏥 Today we celebrate National Arts in Health Day 2025—a powerful reminder that creativity is care. Here’s to the artists, healers, researchers, and advocates leading the way. The future of health is creative. @leagueofcities @artsinhealthUS @onop_2024 @ufcota

In late 2024, a landmark report quantified the benefits of cultural investment 📊 Now, you can watch Prof Daisy Fancourt break down the approach & some of the key findings in a short presentation 📽️ Video 👉 sbbresearch.org/policy-impact/… Full report 👉 sbbresearch.org/new-research-q…

How can community arts participation boost connection & wellbeing? The Arts For EveryBody / @ONOP_2024 Impact Report explores insights from community leaders & researchers, the findings show how the arts truly impact community wellbeing—empowering people with real data 7 results.

UK suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst was a trained artist and in 1907 created several watercolours depicting women workers in factories, mills and potteries to highlight working women’s rights, their pay and conditions #WomensArt

"#WeAreViable, aren’t we? Music careers, state support, and the political feasibility of a Basic Income for the Arts" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This mirrors @ICNurses work on the “Economic power of Care” and the critical importance of investing in #Nursing jobs which @wef have identied as one of the top 10 jobs to grow by 2030. We can deliver #HealthForAll and strengthen econmies through investment in nursing @WHO

Good health is at the heart of productivity, human potential, and overall development. Discover how investing in health systems can drive economic growth and job creation. wrld.bg/Jm5h50Wq5eU #InvestInHealth

Countries around the world are experiencing setbacks when it comes to women’s rights. At this week's High-level Political Forum, @UN_Women is calling on leaders to re-commit, invest & act for gender equality & the empowerment of all women & girls. unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

5 years remain to meet our #GlobalGoals. We must move beyond talk. We need to act and deliver real progress for people and planet. Follow the 2025 #HLPF ➡️ hlpf.un.org/2025 #2030Agenda #SDGs

Thrilled to be part of this & publication using my evaluation expertise, global health experience, nurse lens & honorary advisor role ⁦@THETlinks⁩ ‘Enhancing learning from evaluations in newborn & child health’ BMJ Global Health ⁦@FoNScharity⁩ gh.bmj.com/content/10/6/e…

We’re at a turning point for #GenderEquality. At #HLPF 2025, with #SDG5 under review and #Beijing30 on the agenda, the world must act boldly #ForAllWomenAndGirls. We have 5 years left—and one chance. Let’s deliver on SDG 5. 🔗 Learn more: unwo.men/ewaS50WpagN

300,000 years of human history. How lucky we are to have lived in the same 49 as Andrea Gibson

We’re exploring how we can better connect with people who care about creativity and mental health and we’d love your thoughts. 💬 Take our short survey and help shape what comes next: 🔗 form.jotform.com/251892138790062 #HospitalRooms #ArtsInMentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters

2/2 #GlobalGoals

1/2 let’s look at this through eyes of nurses and arts #GlobalGoals

SDG 5 Despite global commitments, only 56.3 per cent of women aged 15–49 who are married or in a union have full decision-making power over their sexual and reproductive health and rights, according to data from 78 countries. unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/20…

— SDG 5 Women and girls continue to bear a disproportionate share of unpaid domestic and care work, Global time-use data underscore a persistent reality: on average, women devote two and a half times as many hours per day to these tasks as men unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/20…

— SDG 5 01/01/25, women held 27.2%of the seats in national parliaments;up 4.9% from 2015 but only 0.3 points from 2024, slower than average annual increase of nearly 0.5 points in the previous decade. Women’s representation local government stuck at 35.5% unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/20…