Claire Hooker

Claire Hooker

Claire Hooker is Associate Professor in Health and Medical Humanities at Sydney Health Ethics and President of the Arts Health Network NSW/ACT.

Claire’s research centres a practice of honouring the perspectives and expertises of different knowledge holders and knowledge users, in order to create spaces where people can work together to improve health. Her current research focuses particularly on the role and impact of arts and culture in disaster management, on arts and health and health humanities more generally, and on risk communication. With the Sydney Arts and Health Collective, she created the verbatim theatre play Grace Under Pressure, which has been performed widely in hospitals to improve healthcare workplace culture. Claire has published 4 books and 85 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, found here or via ORCiD.