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**The Shape of the Pain** I will collaborate with writer Chris Thorpe to develop and tour a new theatre production. This includes a seven-week period of research, rehearsals and production, a four-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a three-week run in London. The play will be based on my own experience of living with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).
It will explore living with chronic pain and how it alters our senses. The production will be an artistic and scientific collaboration, bringing together medical research and an unique theatrical language.
Having undertaken two R&D periods, the project has established key medical collaborators who are vital to the development process, including Dr Helen Cohen and Professor George Ikkos, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dr Giandomenico Iannetti and Dr Ana Tajadura Jimenez, UCL, and Professor Candy McCabe, UWE, all currently involved in cutting edge research into pain.
Hold is an R&D project exploring the creation of a series of networked sculptures, life-size translucent figures in public spaces that awaken when they are touched or held. Invisible Flock will collaborate with Professor of Affective Interaction and Computing Nadia Berthouze (UCL) to explore the relationship between touch, sense and loneliness, and the effects of touch deprivation on our physical and mental well-being.
As part of this R&D we will develop prototypes exploring how the physiological effects of being held manifest themselves inside the sculptures as evolving patterns of light and heat, using the technology to develop a relationship between the participant and the objects. In a world of online social networks and connected technologies, intimacy and human interaction is shifting.
Can technology heighten intimacy and help isolated people feel more connected? This project will visualise the biological effects of touch and connectivity in the body through a series of playful and interactive public artworks. This collaboration will draw on my experiences of growing up on a farm and Michiko Nitta’s experiences of growing up through the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
We will explore how heavy metals in the landscape where we live and grow food affect our personalities, bodies and health. Audiences will be invited to explore the ethical and social consequences of biomedical research on heavy metals from environmental sources.
Through a collaboration with Dr Louise Horsfall from the University of Edinburgh, new synthetic biology tools will be explored to create engineered bacteria that can extract valuable nano-metals from our food and environmental sources such as the air, in an external digestive system machine.
New art pieces will be made with the resulting metals as a representation of the landscape’s impact on the body and its ability to go beyond the familiar saying of ‘we are what we eat’ to illustrate ‘we are where we live’.
**DOT – a new play exploring internet addiction/screen time** Written for two women – one older, one younger – DOT continues Metta’s commitment to represent diversity on stage, encouraging young female audiences and those from BAME backgrounds who rarely see themselves as protagonists on our stages.
Using interconnected stories of characters with different relationships to screen time, DOT will use video projection to visually explore contemporary research into the impact of screen time and internet use on our bodies and brains. Lucida is an immersive moving image installation, a touring exhibition and an artist’s publication that all explore the human eye, vision and the brain.
The project brings together the diverse, subjective perspectives of scientists, psychologists and ordinary people who each have their own compelling story about vision.
The artwork uses moving images as a starting point to unlock and investigate how multiple projections of the world focus on: the physical structure of the human eye; the latest biomedical research and theory about how the brain processes and interprets sensory perception to create sight; and the role that art can play in providing metaphors to understand what perception means.
Lucida seeks to make the viewer distinctly aware of seeing by bringing the perceptual process – including its flaws, imperfections and assumptions – to the forefront.
**Abu Omar Is Waiting for You** Abu Omar Is Waiting for You – a line taken from a human smuggler’s online advert – is a project by myself and fellow artist Saeed Taji Farouky exploring the way in which threat and loss, including loss of social meaning, arising from migration and displacement can give rise to trauma and how this shapes the perception of self.
The project will be founded on in-depth, long-term collaboration with ten 16-19-year-old UK-based refugees and asylum seekers. We will look at how trauma presents in the body and the coping strategies used to contain it. We will ask whether re-framing traumatic events as stories can heal them and how the experience of life can be changed by the experience of threat.
It will culminate in at least one public exhibition showing wood-cut and etched prints, sculpture, film and photography, a free multilingual printed publication and a public conference exploring psychiatry and art in the context of the current migration crises.
**Hysteria 2017: R&D for four arts commissions (visual arts, moving image, music, performing/live art)** The main aim of this project is to conduct R&D for four arts commissions on the theme of hysteria for the Hysteria 2017 public engagement festival.
Four commissions in visual arts, moving image, music and performing arts will explore the various iterations of hysteria, from its emergence as a diagnostic category in the 19th century that was mostly applied to women, to the contemporary understanding of conversion disorder. The commissions involve close collaboration between artists, clinical specialists and a medical historian.
They will explore the history of hysteria as one that charts the efforts of psychological medicine to understand how traumatic experiences can be experienced as problems with the motor and sensory functions of the body. The four commissions will examine different aspects of hysteria in light of contemporary society in order to engage audiences with the relationship between psychological trauma and physical illness.
**tutti frutti Productions** Wild! will be a one-person show that unravels the story of a boy with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD affects about 5% of children worldwide, so on average there is a child with diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD in most classrooms.
Working with the Centre for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders across the Lifespan (CANDAL), tutti frutti will bring insight and understanding to this complex topic, allowing the audience to identify with the boy and go on a journey through his experiences in a sensitive, empathetic but fun and accessible way.
In partnership with Professor David Daley from CANDAL and his team, and researched with ADHD patient groups, the play will explore emotions and behaviours associated with ADHD, with support material in the programmes, online and at the theatre outlining current biomedical science and explaining the use of medication and behavioural intervention. Wild!
will be performed to children aged 8-12 years, their teachers and families across the UK. **Database Addiction 2.
0** In 2015 YoHa worked with the Clinical Addictions Group at South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust to produce Database Addiction, a research project using art as a method of enquiry to explore how databases become a strategy in action, a multi-scalar technology of power constructing the governance of addiction centres. After this R&D phase, Database Addiction 2.
0 artistically problematises databases from the inverse point of view of the clinic by creating a database built for and with addicts. At its heart, this is a critical interrogation into the formation and flow of power created through the formation and interaction with the database as they intersect with the lives of those who have addictions.
We will set up a simple technological method by which an anonymised network of addicts support each other through text messaging and online access. Background aggregation will then be used to create an open database that is useful to addicts and create a critical tool for public engagement. **Grand Union Orchestra** Some diseases attract billions of pounds in research funding while others languish unnoticed.
This partly reflects the number of people affected, but it is also about who suffers from a disease, whether they are insiders or outsiders, rich or poor, us or them, and whether the disease causes moral or physical panic. I will work with Elisabeth Pisani, an epidemiologist with no talent for music, to investigate research funding in order to express inequity in human experience. We will broaden this discussion using music.
The multicultural Grand Union Orchestra will bring together musicians from the many ethnicities of East London to discuss disease and equity with students of global health. Pisani will ‘quantify’ the discussions statistically and the statistics will be translated into a musical performance, Germinations, that reveals the dissonance between the burden of disease and investment in health research in an emotionally engaging performance.
**I Told My Mum I was on an RE Trip** I Told My Mum I was on an RE Trip is the working title of a new verbatim theatre production that will explore experiences and stories of abortion – with particular focus on young people.
The R&D period will see director Julia Samuels collaborate with UCL academic and abortion education expert Dr Jayne Kavanagh to understand the topic and gather interviews from people from varied social and geographical backgrounds. This will include academics, young people, abortion service staff and campaigners.
We will gather voices from across the spectrum of opinion, to learn about abortion and its place in contemporary healthcare and society. RE Trip will consist of a script created from these interviews which will be toured nationally to venues, education environments and community spaces. It will provoke discussion on a topic often omitted from young peoples’ education and considered a social taboo.
Through carefully considered wraparound activities, including post-show discussions, workshops, playtexts and resource packs, young people and educators will gain tools to continue conversations and learning about abortion. Cemetery, directed by artist Carlos Casas, is an immersive film and audio-visual installation inspired by the legend of the elephant cemetery – a place where elephants instinctively go to die.
It explores sensory and audio-visual perception, questioning and pushing the boundaries of cinematic experience. Drawing inspiration from elephant communication, it will present new ways of using sound as a sensory bond with the spectator.
The project will involve a collaboration between sound-recording artist Chris Watson, sound engineer Tony Myatt, bio-acoustician and elephant communication expert Dr Joyce Poole, and a conversation with psychologist and specialist in infrasound perception Richard Wiseman. It will focus on infrasonic recordings of elephants and will present the rich sonic world of elephants and their interactions with man.
**Re-gendering the Body: The Scar as Signifier** This project will investigate the impact of surgical procedures on transgender people who are undergoing gender reassignment. The project aims to highlight the highly sensitive and challenging task of re-gendering the body as a form of artistic sculpting. It will do this by producing a new sculptural work and the documentation of a one-day roundtable discussion.
A central theme for the development of the new sculptural work will be a focus on the natural scarring that occurs after the surgical shaping of the body from one gender to another.
These permanent traces on the skin can be artistically interpreted as a universal signifier for transgender bodies and identities, raising questions over what kind of ‘artistic training’ is in place in biomedical science for those working in the field of gender reassignment surgery.
**Tomorrow I was always a lion: investigating psychosis and recovery** Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), with collaborators including scientific consultants and clinical practitioners working with young people, will create a theatrical and digital production based on the memoir ‘A Road Back from Schizophrenia’ by Norwegian psychologist Arnhild Lauveng.
By bringing together contributors from across disciplines, the project aims to examine a range of questions raised by the memoir, including the nature of recovery from schizophrenia as opposed to managing and living with the condition, the factors that affect vulnerability to psychosis and recovery and the interplay between genetic factors and environmental conditions in the manifestation of psychosis.
It will also look at the social and cultural explanations and interpretations of disease and how they affect stigma. Through collaboration with Young Minds and performance runs in London, Falmouth and Manchester, BFT will engage diverse audiences in dialogue about the nature of mental illness, recovery, and social interpretations.
**Tamasha Theatre Company** New Families is the working title for a collaboration between Tamasha Theatre Company, the Centre for Family Research (CFR) at Cambridge University and youth theatre Generation Arts. It will examine the experiences of young people born by assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) and use the findings to produce a 40-minute play for young people.
Tamasha playwright Satinder Chohan will work as writer-in-residence at CFR, exploring its work and developing creative ideas in collaboration with senior research associate Dr Vasanti Jadva. The resulting show will provide a platform for CFR’s public engagement with curated events featuring artists, academics and biomedical researchers to engage audiences with the social and cultural implications of advances in ARTs.
The Night Shift is an art and science research collaboration with Russell Foster from the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi), University of Oxford. The outcome will be a film and publication supported by Video in Common and The Czech Centre. The project centres on shift workers in London who safeguard and maintain the city as we sleep.
Since 2008 the proportionate number of people in shift work has steadily increased, mostly in the fields of healthcare, personal protection, transport and communications.
The Night Shift will explore this growing phenomenon of night-time work, connecting this relatively short era in labour history to the longer-term biological evolutions of sleep, circadian rhythm, metabolism, hibernation, laziness, etc. Through discussion groups, public forums and new artwork, we will ask what effect this working pattern has on general health and well-being and will look to develop wider awareness of the associated biological and neurological effects of night work as well as the social impact on shift workers and their families.
This grant will fund R&D into SBM, with Dr Stephani Hatch, Dr Denese Shervington, Dr Mark Ashworth and the Health Inequalities Research Network (HERON), to explore the over-representation of ethnic minorities in mental health services. SBM is a dynamic multidisciplinary theatre piece that charts the journey of Al, who has made an epic graphic novel to explain to his friends and family that he can fly.
The non-linear script will be performed using chorus, movement, video and music. The scientific collaborators will help accurately represent the social determinants, experiences, care pathways and outcomes related to mental health disorders. The play aims to engage London’s African-Caribbean community and spark wider discussion about mental well-being and the impact of our preconceptions of mental health.
**Daughters of Fortune: Mia** Stories of parents with learning disabilities usually feature in the media when the situation is sensational, for example when a child is removed from parents or a court enforces sterilisation. Daughters of Fortune: Mia is a piece of multidisciplinary theatre exploring learning disability and parenthood.
It will divert this issue from the sensational to the rational, presenting a range of views through storytelling, performance, film, sound and music. It will illuminate the scientific and social complexities so audiences can be more informed.
As resident director of Mind the Gap, I will work in partnership with Professor Lucy Raymond from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research and Goldsmith’s Disability Research Centre to create this multi-artform theatre experience that will be targeted at people with learning disabilities and their networks. Mia combines real-life experience with genetic research to make a difficult subject matter accessible.
We want audiences to reflect on their own experiences and leave with a deeper understanding of what it means to be a learning-disabled parent. **There is a Light: BRIGHTLIGHT and Contact Young Company collaboration** BRIGHTLIGHT is the first major study of specialist cancer care for young people in England.
There is a Light, created by Contact Young Company (CYC) in collaboration with BRIGHTLIGHT, the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University of Chichester, will be an original performance inspired by the study. It will feature four young people with cancer who will be cast alongside CYC’s regular performers.
There is a Light will tour to a range of public audiences, including to influential medical conferences and to the patient groups who have contributed to and benefit from the long-term, ground-breaking research, particularly the Find Your Sense of Tumour (FYSOT) Conference, the largest gathering of young people with cancer in Europe.
A programme of talkbacks and the development of a theatre programme will ensure a long-lasting and wide-ranging impact.
### Professor Daria Martin **Franz Kafka’s A Hunger Artist: exploring anorexia nervosa on film** Created through interdisciplinary and artistic collaborations, Franz Kafka’s A Hunger Artist, an adaptation of Kafka’s classic short story, will depict aspects of anorexia and psychology and invite contrasting vivid experiences of healthy embodiment.
It will explore two opposing ways of looking: a voyeuristic gaze that objectifies and spectacularises the body, and a multimodal, embodied, phenomenological way of relating to images. The film’s push and pull between these two ways of looking will result in new understandings of anorexia nervosa, as well as new experiences that challenge anorexia.
General audiences will be prompted to feel and think through the question of how the media alters a bodily sense of self, for worse and for better. My ethical exploration of these subjects will be in dialogue with research across a number of fields. I will draw on neuroscience, psychoanalysis and psychiatric treatment of eating disorders, as well Kafka’s first-person perspective.
The Yard (TY) will create an epic theatre production exploring the history of the family over the past 100 years. I will develop this idea with Professor Marcus Pembrey, leader in the field of epigenetics, along with other respected researchers in sociology, anthropology and social history. We will develop a play that uses the story of 100 years of a single family to explore fundamental questions about family, inheritance, and identity.
Research will focus on how notions of the family have been deconstructed and reconstructed over time; how the experiences of our ancestors inform and shape who we are, even at a genetic level; and how national and global events generate ripples both in society at large, and in individual family units. As a result of this, we will share both the first iteration of the play and a discussion of our research.
Theatrum Botanicum is a new multiscreen moving-image installation and collaborative community project that considers medicinal plants as dynamic agents linking nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, and tradition and modernity. The project explores issues around the medical uses of plants in post-colonial, migratory and urban contexts in South Africa and the UK.
The installation connects contemporary practices of medicinal plant use in South Africa alongside a restaging of a 1940 trial against a traditional herbalist accused by the local white medical establishment of untraditional behaviour. It will lead to a multicultural medicinal plant garden at an inner-city care home in London, a publication and a public events programme.
Theatrum Botanicum asks where and why a medicine is considered alternative and how a plant is transformed into different products. Responding to the renewed interest in herbalism since the 1990s, the project will question dichotomies between traditional and modern medical systems.
The project will develop in collaboration with Michael Heinrich, Professor of Pharmacognosy at University College London, Ben-Erik van Wyk, Professor of Taxonomy and Ethnobotany at the University of Johannesburg, and Dr Karen Flint, Associate Professor of History at UNC Charlotte.
**Grief – A Work in Progress** From the moment a loved one is given a terminal diagnosis until their death and beyond, bereaved caregivers suffer a barrage of physical, cognitive and psychological grief reactions. Developments in neuropsychology and technological advances in brain imaging has enabled clinical psychologists to research the effects grief can have.
Grief – A Work in Progress is a publication, video and performance piece that I will produce in collaboration with clinical psychologist Dr Kirsten Smith and Deborah Coughlin, the founding director of all female performance company Gaggle.
We will develop and run a series of workshops for a group of bereaved participants inspired by Dr Smith’s research on autobiographic memory, in order to construct an alternative choir and perform how grief is experienced by those affected in a thought-provoking and entertaining way.
**Donmar Warehouse Projects** Nick’s new play perfectly addresses the Donmar Warehouse’s mission to combine theatre with thought and debate about relevant, important and difficult subjects. ELEGY imagines a development in neuroscience that can remove degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s from people but with controversial consequences.
It will put ethical and social issues around neuroscience centre stage at one of the UK’s most respected producing theatres.
**Brainy: R&D for an aerial theatre performance collaboration between Scarabeus Aerial Theatre and the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN)** We will collaborate with NSPN neuroscientists on a new theatre project entitled Brainiac, part of a three-year trilogy created for and in consultation with young people aged 14-25.
We wish to understand the structure of the teenage brain and use the results of the network’s U-Change programme as a starting point. We will look at the structure of the healthy teenage brain using the latest neuroimaging techniques and data on measuring feelings and thoughts.
We aim to understand the relationship between the structure of the brain and certain types of behaviour in teenagers and young adults, particularly regarding mood and conduct disorders, risk-taking, the sense of belonging and loneliness.
We will use this information to develop an aerial theatre production that will incorporate aerial dance and visual theatre, multimedia projections and a unique set design to immerse the audience in the inner workings of the teenage and young adult brain. **The Ballad of Peckham Rye** Correspondence O is an artistic collaboration with scientific neuroscientists.
It will explore my response to current preoccupations with personal health, technology and self in comparison to a broader perception of public health and the common good found in the earlier history of public health. The Peckham Pioneer Centre, from which the title is borrowed, was established to bring together medical, social and community as an active demonstration of scientific and social progress for the common good.
I will connect the historical context with research in cognitive technology, to explore and reflect changing perceptions and the technologically-driven sense of personal well-being and public health. The Peckham Pioneer Centre and its conversion into a gated community has been chosen for its significance, in parallel with the technology now applied to a deepening focus on ‘self’.
This moving image installation will examine medical, social and artistic practice with a public exhibition and event series at the South London Gallery. Depths of My Mind will combine aerial skills with storytelling, aerial dance and physical theatre to explore the latest developments in neuroscience and neuroimaging connected to the teenage brain.
Scarabeus Aerial Theatre will create a new aerial theatre project presenting the results of the U-Change brain and mind research programme.
In close collaboration with specialists from the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN), Scarabeus will devise a show that examines the relationship between the structure of the brain and certain types of behaviour in teenagers and young adults, with a particular emphasis on mood and conduct disorders, risk-taking, sense of belonging and loneliness.
The performance installation, presented with Polka Theatre London, will incorporate aerial dance and multimedia projections to immerse the audience into the inner workings of the teenage brain. Depths of My Mind is the second part of a three-year trilogy of work created for and in consultation with young people aged 12-25. Contender is a research project that will inform a new play about Olympic swimmers.
Through consultation with experts including scientists, doctors, athletes and theatre artists, I aim to uncover the inherent drama of elite athletics. In addition to the physical sacrifice and psychological hardship of competition, the project will explore biomedical and technological innovations that enable modern athletes to challenge and redefine the potential of the human body.
It will also interrogate the bureaucratic, political and ethical landscape of world-class competition. If medals equal money, then the athlete’s body is a commodity and biomedical innovations are financially valuable. Contender will investigate the potential for corruption, such as match-rigging and the development of performance enhancement drugs, as well as the use of anti-doping tests, intelligence and other means of policing.
The project will be conducted in partnership with three lead collaborators: Professor Greg Whyte OBE, a former pentathlete and sport and exercise scientist of international renown; Team GB swimmer and two-time Commonwealth gold medalist Caitlin McClatchey; and Milt Nelms, international technical expert in aquatic sports. Set in 2020, The Cure is a play that will imagine a high-profile medical scandal in a post-NHS Britain.
Developed by theatre company Made By Brick in partnership with London’s National Theatre Studio, it will be made in consultation with research scientists, doctors, pharmacologists, health economists, bioethical specialists, medical journalists and critical thinkers, as well as a advisers on the US-style private system. Money will be a silent but central character in the play.
It is an unavoidable fact that new treatments for both chronic and life-threatening illnesses generate huge profits. The Cure will interrogate the ethical relationship between money, provision of care and professional duty. It will consider how prioritising profit can negatively impact on our health – be that the publication of misleading trials or leaving effective drugs unlicensed.
The play will also examine the positive attributes of financial ambition and whether a diverse marketplace promotes biomedical innovation. **Lucy Beech Commission** People with Morgellons disease experience immobilising sensations of crawling, biting and stinging under the surface of the skin, but this disorder is contested between patients and clinicians.
Scientists at the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine are researching the clinical representation of the itch as an irrational perception, tactile hallucinations or feedback loops. In contrast, people with Morgellons, the majority women, convene online in a safe space to ‘prove’ and analyse this condition as a shared, physical reality.
Lucy Beech will create a film as a re-performed fictional documentary using research from those involved in the diagnosis of Morgellons. It will raise questions about the conflict of providing care on the fringes of clinical practice. The film will consider alternative models for diagnosis, ways of viewing the body, and what effect these self-diagnosed communities might have on scientific understandings of perception.
**Thomas Carter Projects** **Adam’s Apple song cycle** The Adam’s Apple cycle of songs will be developed from R&D by Alex Bulmer and Errollyn Wallen looking at the neuroscience of voice production and how we physically adjust our voices to produce a desired effect. It will be based on interviews, research material and speech pathology documentation and the text/characters developed in a previous workshop.
The material will be shaped into a cycle of songs that reflect the scientific pathway of voice production. The song cycle will then be workshopped, rehearsed and performed by three LBGT choirs in London, Manchester and Blackpool.
**Cap-a-Pie Engagements** Cap-a-Pie will collaborate with Dr Vivek Nityananda, a sensory biologist at Newcastle University’s Institute of Neuroscience, to produce a new theatre piece Six Legs (working title) to be performed at Ouseburn Farm, an urban community farm in Byker, Newcastle. Byker is an area of deprivation, and Cap-a-Pie will work to particularly target young people (aged 4-7 years) in the local area.
The show poses the question: ‘How are insects similar or different to me? ’ The performance will focus on comparative neuroscience and how different organisms solve sensory problems common to both humans and animals, and whether different nervous systems have similar or novel solutions to the same problems. These questions explore the evolution of nervous systems and the diversity of sensory strategies.
The show immerses the audience into a self-created environment allowing them to interact with performers and encourages the audience/participants to observe and understand how organisms sense the world. **Who is Full? R&D project by Selina Nwulu** How does the food we eat affect our bodies?
How does the food most readily on offer fail us? Who is Full? is an exploration of health and well-being and the global food system.
This 12-month R&D project will result in Young Poet Laureate for London, Selina Nwulu, creating a proposal for an interactive poetry project to be toured nationally and internationally. Informing its creation will be biomedical scientists Professor Montgomery and Professor Kessel, social scientist Professor Millstone and economist Kate Raworth.
A public engagement programme leading to the creation of a pamphlet of poetry and essays will test the impact of spoken word poetry to communicate to the public the urgent issues of climate change and its effect on our health. This project will explore ways the spoken and written word can activate the public and help scientists develop compelling ways to communicate the issues.
Sleepless is a theatre production inspired by the story of a family suffering from a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease – fatal familial insomnia – which leaves generations of family members fatally losing the ability to sleep.
In Sleepless, one woman’s search for answers about the condition plays out against the unfolding crisis of the better known prion condition variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or mad cow disease), exploring the impact of commercial interests on finding cures for rare diseases.
Developed through collaboration with leading sleep scientists and neuroscientists working on prion theory, Sleepless highlights a little known area of scientific research. The show tells an epic story across timelines, generations and continents. An international co-production, the show will be accompanied by engagement events and online resources to give audiences deeper access to the science behind the work.
**Opening Skinner’s Box** Opening Skinner’s Box will be a touring theatre production created by Improbable. Using the book of the same name by
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The Evidence for AI in Health (EVAH) initiative is a $60 million joint investment by the Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome Trust to support rigorous, country-led evaluations of AI health tools in low- and middle-income countries. Delivered in partnership with J-PAL and the African Population and Health Research Center, EVAH funds evaluations of AI-enabled clinical decision support tools in primary and community healthcare settings across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Pathway A supports early-deployment evaluations focusing on usability, workflow integration, and safety for up to $1 million. Pathway B funds randomized controlled trials, economic analyses, and implementation science studies of tools ready for deployment at scale for up to $3 million. The initiative addresses a critical evidence gap about whether AI diagnostic and clinical decision support tools actually improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.