Six years later, to mark the centenary of the flu pandemic, I led Wellcome’s Contagious Cities programme, which established artist residencies in Berlin, Geneva, Hong Kong and New York and worked in partnership with cultural institutions to support locally led explorations of epidemic preparedness. Covid-19 threw this work into stark relief, and has also informed our Mindscapes programme. This is currently sharing experiences of mental health through the work of artists around the world, such as writer Priya Basil, who is travelling to places where biomedical and traditional approaches to mental health meet, aiming to compile a new atlas of mental health.