Educating tomorrow's public health professionals to utilize the arts for health.

Momentum has been building over the last few years around capitalizing on the arts for improving health and wellbeing. But how are public health professionals to develop the skills needed to utilize the arts? In this article, Annie Harrison and Hannah Waterson discuss the evidence for the use of arts in health and describe 'Arts and Public Health' an optional module of the University of Manchester: Master of Public Health designed to equip students to meet the arts and health challenge.