Atlanta-based health program reaching youth through music.

HEALTH promotion; HEALTH education; PUBLIC health; CONCERT tours; CONCERTS; LEVY, Benjamin; ADOLESCENT health

The article focuses on the Atlanta, Georgia-based health program called Music Inspires Health. The program is the brainchild of Benjamin Levy, who said he created the initiative to empower teens, college students and young adults to make better decisions about their health. Levy, who has a bachelor's degree in music, developed Music Inspires Health over a two-year period with the active participation of hundreds of educators, medical students, physicians, public health experts and musicians. From March to May 2008, the program will launch health education concert tour featuring many big-name artists from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, California.