Jeremy Nobel

Jeremy Nobel is a primary-care physician, public health practitioner, award-winning poet, and longtime faculty member at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. His work brings together health, creativity, and human connection, with a particular focus on loneliness and social isolation. He founded and leads the Foundation for Art & Healing, whose signature initiative, Project UnLonely, addresses the personal and public health effects of disconnection and promotes meaningful connection through creative engagement.

Nobel is the author of Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection, a book exploring the roots and consequences of loneliness and ways to foster reconnection. Drawing on research, professional perspectives, and people’s lived experiences, the book presents creativity as part of the healing process. His website also shares his poetry, which explores subjects including pain, memory, and everyday life. For organizations and event organizers, Nobel offers speaking engagements and participates in interviews and media conversations on loneliness, wellbeing, and connection.