Sound Health Network

Between 2020 and 2025, the National Endowment for the Arts partnered with the University of California, San Francisco, on the Sound Health Network (SHN). The SHN emerged from Sound Health—a partnership that ended in 2025, having ultimately included the National Institutes of Health (NIH), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée Fleming Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Foundation for NIH. 

Over a five-year period, the SHN promoted and expanded public knowledge and awareness of music's impacts on health and wellness. It created and maintained an online clearinghouse of scientific publications, virtual networking opportunities, webinars and videos, newsletters, presentations at conferences, and a directory of music and health researchers and practitioners.
 

Watch the Sound Health Network Shorts, a series of videos spotlighting the intersections of music, science, and health. 

For more information about the SHN, please contact research@arts.gov.