Current Work
Belinda is an arts-in-health community innovator and filmmaker who uses documentary storytelling to challenge stigma, amplify unheard voices, and advocate for sustainable funding for creative approaches as vital tools for advancing brain health equity.
Personal Hero
Jon Bon Jovi, an example of how art and empathy create community action
Words of Strength
Champion of underrepresented communities, Innovative, resilient and indefatigable.
Vision
Belinda envisions advancing brain health and bringing communities together through arts-based care and early education for young people. She believes that building social cohesion can foster shared responsibility for prevention beyond clinical approaches alone.
Strategy
Through arts-and-health initiatives such as the NeuroRhythm program, Belinda fosters community connection and well-being. As a citizen researcher drawing on lived experience, she uses documentary filmmaking grounded in dignity as a tool for brain health advocacy.
Impact
As an Atlantic Fellow, Belinda aims to build global partnerships that advance policy change and sustainable funding for creative rehabilitation. She seeks to center the experiences of people living with neurological conditions and their caregivers, ensuring their voices inform policy and practice.
Motivation
In Australia, dementia is one of the leading causes of death. Belinda uses film to bridge gaps in brain health literacy, raise awareness of prevention, empower caregivers, and bring often-unseen experiences to light, fostering greater empathy and understanding within communities.
Education & Experience
Belinda Adams OAM is an advocate and innovator in brain injury care who bridges lived experience, creative practice, and academic inquiry. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Creative Business from the University of Canberra and is director of Citrine Sun Entertainment, an ambassador for the Hopkins Centre in Australia, and an adjunct fellow at Griffith University.
She is the author of the memoir I Bought a Bus and co-author of research on self-advocacy in rehabilitation. Through her NeuroRhythm program and impact documentaries, including Rhythms of Recovery, Belinda champions arts-based approaches that foster community connection and advance evidence-informed policy change for people living with neurological conditions.
Awards & Honors
Shannon Fentiman, Shadow Minister for Women QLD
Community Impact
Reader Views
Memoir - Bronze Award
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia
Community Health
The Hopkins Centre
Citizen Research
Lord Mayor Councillor Graham Quirk, QLD Australia
Community Award
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