Daisy Fancourt's research focuses on the effects of social factors on health, including loneliness, social isolation, community assets, arts and cultural engagement, and social prescribing.
13 Facts About Daisy Fancourt
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Daisy Fancourt earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Oxford and her master's at King's College London in 2012.
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Daisy Fancourt joined the National Health Service, where she worked at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on arts and clinical innovations.
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Daisy Fancourt eventually returned to academia, and earned her doctoral degree in 2016 at University College London where she worked in psychoneuroimmunology.
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Daisy Fancourt studied the biological impact of the arts, with a particular focus on the use of music in clinical settings.
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Daisy Fancourt's work led to the publication of a new theoretical model for how music affects immune response.
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Daisy Fancourt developed and researched a number of new arts programmes to support clinical outcomes, including a community drumming intervention for people with mental illness, a singing programme for mothers with postnatal depression, and a choir programme for people affected by cancer.
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At the annual Imperial College London festival, Daisy Fancourt analysed the capacity of men and women to play board games whilst listening to music, and showed that men perform worse when there is rock music in the background.
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Daisy Fancourt published studies showing how loneliness and social isolation affect neuro-immune markers, cardiovascular events, and hospital admissions for respiratory disease.
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In 2018, Daisy Fancourt began working with the World Health Organization to develop an agenda that connected the arts, health and well-being.
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Daisy Fancourt led the COVID-19 Social Study, an investigation looking at the social experiences of adults in the United Kingdom during the outbreak.
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Daisy Fancourt's results showed that prior to the lockdown officially beginning there was a decline in happiness.
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Daisy Fancourt was appointed to the Lancet Covid-19 Commission and the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Mental Health in COVID.