Monica Merante

Monica Merante is a Master’s student in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. With a background in anthropology, museum studies, and classics, her research interests lie in art-based public health interventions, natural disasters, and evaluation work. Monica was a research analyst and writer on the Art Heals project.

“How is creativity anything but the fullness of human potential? In the pouring out and the taking in of art, the relational layers of meaning developed, by one person or twenty, is witness to art’s exponential power of influence, inspiration, and connection.”

                                                                                                   -Monica Merante