Eva Bojner Horwitz

Eva Bojner Horwitz, professor of music and health at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and researcher at the

Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute (KI). She is associate professor and doctor in social medicine, cultural health researcher, specialized in psychosomatic medicine and in creative arts; co-founder of the Center for Social Sustainability (CSS), KI.

She is anchored in interdisciplinary research, has doctoral students, authored scientific articles and books (Oxford University Press & Springer Books).. She is known internationally for her implementation of music activities in health care and in school systems and for her evaluation with video interpretation technique (VIT), combining quantitative (stress hormone analyses, heart rate variability and flow) with qualitative research (micro phenomenology and phenomenological hermeneutics).

Research focus: music and health (sing health in schools, performance evaluations, "HeArtS": Health –Arts – Sustainability - a digital platform); music and learning (knowledge concerts, Prelude before Nobel); cultural activities and public health; music in end-of-life situations; music and social sustainability (inner transformation and creativity); arts and humanities; nature related soundscapes, resilience, neurodiversity and music, aesthetics and flow.

She is known internationally for her implementation of cultural activities in health care systems for exhausted patients and staff, and for her evaluation with video interpretation technique (VIT), combining quantitative (stress hormone analyses, heart rate variability and flow measurement) with qualitative methods i.e. phenomenological hermeneutic methods and micro phenomenology ( trained by Prof Claire Petitmengin in Paris). 

Ongoing research focus:

Performance evaluations with musicians and their audience.

Sing Health in Schools

Knowledge concerts (Prelude before Nobel)

Aesthetics, Beauty and Embodied Compassion

Autism and engagement in music activities

Neurodiversity and well-being

Emerging adults and meaningfulness

Music and Medicine

Music, wellbeing, and health

Sustainable working life and the arts

Social relations and health

Music and learning environments

Stress and ergonomics

Music and the brain

Aesthetics and beauty

Teaching from Bojner Horwiitz published books:

“The Cultural Health Box”, “Culture for your Health”, “Improve your Health with Music”, “Theatre for, by, and with patients”, “Culture and Public Health”, “Fibromyalgia – for the cause of stress?”, “Humanizing Health Care with music”, “Embodied Compassion” and "Integrative health and Culture".