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Marcel W. Foster is an American public health professional, arts evaluator, choreographer, and researcher specializing in arts and health integration. They co-founded and direct Performance Hypothesis, LLC,and teach as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine. Foster has developed evaluation methodologies for assessing the impact of arts on health outcomes, including co-directing the Hospital Mural Evaluation, one of the largest international studies examining how murals affect well-being in healthcare settings, and has published peer reviewed research on murals in clinical environments. Their research has been published in Qualitative Health Research and The American Journal of Primatology. Foster holds an MPH from Emory University and dual bachelor's degrees in Anthropology and Theater from the University of Minnesota, combining formal public health training with arts expertise to create innovative evaluation approaches. Foster played a central role in the passage of Georgia House Resolution 1007 (HR1007), making Georgia the first state in the nation to pass legislation explicitly linking the arts to mental health outcomes.