Jill Sonke, PhD, is a US Cultural Policy Fellow with Stanford University, with appointments as a visiting scholar at the National Academy of Medicine and Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is also Co-director of the EpiArts Lab, a National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab in partnership with University College London and Director of Research Initiatives and a Research Professor in the Center for Arts in Medicine at the University of Florida (UF).  

Dr. Sonke served during the pandemic as a senior advisor to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vaccine Confidence and Demand Team on the COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence Task Force and served from 2021-2025 as Director of National Research and Impact for the One Nation/One Project initiative. She currently serves on the steering committee and as an Affiliated Researcher in the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Steinhardt School at New York University, Community Jameel, and CULTURUNNERS and as an editorial board member for the Health Promotion Practice journal. 

With 30+ years of experience and leadership in the field of arts in health and a PhD in arts in public health from Ulster University in Northern Ireland, Jill is active in research and policy advocacy nationally and internationally. She is an artist, cultural strategist and mixed methods researcher with a focus on the arts and public health. She is the recipient of a New Forms Florida Fellowship Award, a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Award, a NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award, a UF Internationalizing the Curriculum Award, a UF Most Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Award, a UF Public Health Champions award, a UF Cross-Campus Faculty Entrepreneur of the Year Award and over 350 grants for her programs and research at the University of Florida.