The Public Health Film Society are pleased to present The Mask You Live In Friday 26th June 2015 at 5:30 pm, T.S. Eliot Theatre Merton College, Oxford In collaboration with Royal Society of Arts, The UK Faculty of Public Health, The Wellcome Trust and Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, the Good Lad Initiative and The…
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have organized a programme of Films for Health next week. The event will include the screening of an Indian feature film (Astu – So Be) and a symposium with people from the film industry and public health who will share their expeirences of using films and video to explore…
Last week saw the annual parade of extravagance at the Academy Awards. Some criticism has been levelled at the Oscars for not reflecting the choices of the average cinema goer, with big-budget films under represented. However, at its heart, the Academy Awards are there to acknowledge more than the cost of making a film or…
On January 10th 2015, Professor John Ashton, President of the Faculty of Public Health and Luciana Berger MP, Shadow Public Health Minister will be joined at the Bluecoat in Liverpool by architects, planners and film-makers to discuss one of the most topical subjects in next year’s general election, the critical shortage of housing in the…
Alison Khan and Maarten Roos from the Film Studies Department at Oxford Brookes University invited us to talk about the public health film initiative and show some public health films to the students on Tuesday 11th November. Here is a picture from the event, thanks to Maarten. More details to follow shortly
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