The rapid proliferation of electronic devices and their widespread ownership and use have given us all unprecedented access to, and ability to consume images and information from a broader number of sources than every before. However, our societies have been slow to pick up on and address some of the adverse consequences of this…
If you missed out on the #PHFilmFestival 2014, we’ll be back showing films in collaboration with the LSHTM Centre for History of Public Health at the Society for Social Medicine @SocSocMed conference at Keble College, Oxford, on 11th Sept #SSM2014, more details click on the following link http://goo.gl/NL3CkN
A blog written by Gary Black from the Public Information department at Mecklenburg County Government and the American Association of Public Health, recalls his trip over to the UK with Dr Pam Luna to help launch three new public health film initiatives, including the 1st UK Public Health Film Festival. click here to read about…
A public health film showing and debate organised at the Faculty of Public Health’s annual conference in Manchester this year is published in the BMJ. The films, which included a world premiere of a clip from the documentary Hot Girls Wanted, highlight the role of the internet and media in normalising pornography and facilitating the exploitation of girls and…
The Public Health Film Festival kicked off this year with the Academy Awarding winning film Dallas Buyers Club, followed by reflections on the film by Akshay Khanna, a human rights lawyer and queer activist along with Salla Sariola, a researcher from the Global Health Bioethics Network. They touched upon the ideas of queer identity in the film and its…
Thanks to The University of Oxford for helping to promote #PHFilmFestival – we made it onto the front page www.ox.ac.uk –http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/humanities-gives-platform-public-health-films
Professor John Ashton, President of the Faculty of Public Health in the UK, welcome the Public Health Film Festival and calls for more imaginative ways of engaging the public in debate about the public health problems we face today.