Dr Katie Rose Sanfilippo

Overview

Dr Katie Rose Mahon Sanfilippo is a Presidential Research Fellow at the Schools of Health and Medical Sciences, a co-director of the Creative Health and Wellbeing Research Group, and a member of the Centre for Health and Care Innovation Research, where she is the Arts and Health lead. Her overall research interests concern the function and application of music and the arts within healthcare contexts. Her current research investigates how community- and arts-based approaches and interventions can be scaled up, spread, and sustained more equitably in the UK and globally, with a focus on resource-constrained settings. She works with various policymakers, charities and health organisations to promote the use of arts to support mental health in the UK and globally. She is an affiliated lecturer in the music faculty at the University of Cambridge and has extensive experience in the UK charity sector. She co-founded the Musical Care International Network and the Music and Parental Wellbeing Alliance.  

Qualifications

• PhD in Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom
• MSc Music Mind and Brain, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
• BA Psychology, Loyola Marymount University, United States
• BA Music, Loyola Marymount University, United States

Employment

• Presidential Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2023 - present
• Research Fellow, City, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2021 - September 2023
• Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, October 2020 - present
• ESRC/SeNSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, October 2020 - October 2021

Award

• Goldsmiths, University of London (2020). Warden's Annual Public Engagement Awards 2020 in the category of Early Career Researcher

Featured publications

1. Spiro, N., Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B.B., Pike-Rowney, G., Bonini Baraldi, F., Brabec, B.... de Wit, K. (2023). Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network. Music & Science, 6. doi:10.1177/20592043231200553

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2. Sanfilippo, K.R.M., Stewart, L. and Glover, V. (2021). How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 24(5), pp. 831-839. doi:10.1007/s00737-021-01178-5

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3. Sanfilippo, K.R.M., McConnell, B., Cornelius, V., Darboe, B., Huma, H.B., Gaye, M.... Stewart, L. (2020). Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial. BMJ Open, 10(11), pp. e040287-e040287. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040287

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