Public Health Film Festival

Last updated

The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF) [1] [2] is a film festival organised by the Public Health Film Society (PHFS). The PHFF debuted in 2014, and takes place every two years. It specialises in screening films about health and is listed with the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). [3]

The first three editions of the PHFF have been hosted by The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) [4] at the Radcliffe Humanities Department in Oxford, England.

The theme for the 1st edition of the PHFF was "Public Health Past, Present and Future"; the 2nd, in 2016, was "Health For All"; the 3rd, in 2018, was "Growing Up Well"; and the 4th, in 2020, was "Health and wellbeing in a pandemic: stories told through film".

The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions of the PHFF have hosted screenings of winning films from the International Public Health Film Competition. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

The 3rd edition of the PHFF saw the introduction of an Audience Award, which was won by the film Lucy: Breaking the Silence from Fact Not Fiction Films. [11]

Related Research Articles

<i>The BMJ</i> British peer-reviewed medical journal

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMJ has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. Previously called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988, and then changed to The BMJ in 2014. The journal is published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, a subsidiary of the British Medical Association (BMA). The current editor-in-chief of The BMJ is Kamran Abbasi, who was appointed in January 2022.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kamran Abbasi</span> British physician and sports writer

Kamran Abbasi is the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a physician, visiting professor at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine(JRSM), journalist, cricket writer and broadcaster, who contributed to the expansion of international editions of the BMJ and has argued that medicine cannot exist in a political void.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Screening (medicine)</span> Brief medical evaluation to detect unnoticed health problems

Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used to look for as-yet-unrecognised conditions or risk markers. This testing can be applied to individuals or to a whole population without symptoms or signs of the disease being screened.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leeds International Film Festival</span> Film festival

The Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) is an annual film festival hosted in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest film festival in England outside of London. Founded in 1987, it is held in November in various venues throughout Leeds, including Hyde Park Picture House and Cottage Road Cinema. In 2022, the festival showed 140 films from 78 countries, shorts and features, both commercial and independent.

A public health intervention is any effort or policy that attempts to improve mental and physical health on a population level. Public health interventions may be run by a variety of organizations, including governmental health departments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Common types of interventions include screening programs, vaccination, food and water supplementation, and health promotion. Common issues that are the subject of public health interventions include obesity, drug, tobacco, and alcohol use, and the spread of infectious disease, e.g. HIV.

The International Health Regulations (IHR), first adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1969 and last revised in 2005, are legally binding rules that only apply to the WHO that is an instrument that aims for international collaboration "to prevent, protect against, control, and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks and that avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade". The IHR is the only international legal treaty with the responsibility of empowering the World Health Organization (WHO) to act as the main global surveillance system.

Health communication is the study and practice of communicating promotional health information, such as in public health campaigns, health education, and between doctor and patient. The purpose of disseminating health information is to influence personal health choices by improving health literacy. Health communication is a unique niche in healthcare that allows professionals to use communication strategies to inform and influence decisions and actions of the public to improve health.

Graphic medicine connotes the use of comics in medical education and patient care.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">71st Venice International Film Festival</span> Film festival

The 71st annual Venice International Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy between 27 August to 6 September 2014. The festival opened with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film Birdman, and closed with Ann Hui's drama film The Golden Era. Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Swedish film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, directed by Roy Andersson, won the Golden Lion, and Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence won the Grand Jury Prize.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Cosford</span> Public health director (1963–2021)

Sir Paul Anthony Cosford was a British emeritus medical director at Public Health England (PHE), the UK's public health agency, later replaced by the UK Health Security Agency. He had executive roles from 2010 at PHE's predecessor, the Health Protection Agency. From April 2013 to 2019 he was PHE's Medical Director and Director for Health Protection, making him responsible for advising on services to prevent and control infectious diseases and for preparations and responses to public health emergencies. He led the MMR vaccine catch-up campaign in response to the resurgence of measles following the MMR Scare, and contributed to the response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the Grenfell disaster in 2017, and the 2018 Novichok poisonings in Salisbury and Amesbury. Over the course of his career in public health he led programmes to reduce hospital-acquired infections and tuberculosis, and oversaw ways of dealing with health inequalities, tobacco, obesity, and responses to pandemic flu.

<i>Vaxxed</i> 2016 anti-vaccination documentary film

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is a 2016 American pseudoscience propaganda film alleging a cover-up by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. According to Variety, the film "purports to investigate the claims of a senior scientist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who revealed that the CDC had allegedly manipulated and destroyed data on an important study about autism and the MMR vaccine"; critics derided Vaxxed as an anti-vaccine propaganda film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Minikino Film Week</span> International Short Film Festival in Bali, Indonesia


Minikino Film Week, Bali International Short Film Festival (MFW) is an annual International short film festival in Bali, Indonesia. MFW was initiated in 2015, organized by the Minikino committee as its parent organization, which has been working in this field since 2002. The organization and MFW is under Indonesian legal entity; Yayasan Kino Media.

Walter Werner Holland was an epidemiologist and public health physician.

Jill Wruble is a radiologist and fellow at Johns Hopkins Medicine who is best known as a speaker on overdiagnosis due to incidental imaging finding in United States medicine.

The Public Health Film Society (PHFS), is a charity registered in the UK (no. 1160590). It was established in 2014 by four public health specialist from Oxford - Dr Uy Hoang, Dr Olena Seminog, Dr Sam Williamson and Dr Stella Botchway, most of whom had been involved in the Oxford Public Health Film Club.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Devi Sridhar</span> Global public health researcher

Devi Lalita Sridhar FRSE is an American public health researcher, who is both professor and chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. Sridhar directs the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Governance Programme which she established in 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">COVID-19 pandemic</span> Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Margaret McCartney</span> General practitioner, writer and broadcaster

Margaret Mary McCartney is a general practitioner, freelance writer and broadcaster based in Glasgow, Scotland. McCartney is a vocal advocate for evidence-based medicine. McCartney was a regular columnist at the British Medical Journal. She regularly writes articles for The Guardian and currently contributes to the BBC Radio 4 programme, Inside Health. She has written three popular science books, The Patient Paradox, The State of Medicine and Living with Dying. During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCartney contributed content to academic journals and broadcasting platforms, personal blog, and social media to inform the public and dispel myths about coronavirus disease.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabriel Scally (physician)</span> Irish physician

Gabriel John Scally FFPHM is an Irish public health physician and a former regional director of public health (RDPH) for the south west of England. He is a visiting professor of public health at the University of Bristol and is a member of the Independent SAGE group, formed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He has also been chair of the trustees of the Soil Association. Previously he was professor of public health and planning, and director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments, both at the University of the West of England (UWE). He was president of the Section of Epidemiology and Public Health of the Royal Society of Medicine, a position he took in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ama de-Graft Aikins</span> Ghanaian academic and psychology researcher

Ama de-Graft Aikins is a British-Ghanaian Social Psychologist who is currently a British Academy Global Professor at University College London's Institute of Advanced Studies. Her research focuses primarily on the psychosocial and structural drivers of Africa's chronic non-communicable disease burden, but she also has interests in arts and health, and the history of psychology in Africa and its intersections with critical theory and African Studies. She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Ghana. In 2015, she became the first female full professor of psychology at the University of Ghana, where she has a tenured position.

References

  1. ↑ Botchway, Stella; Hoang, Uy (1 January 2016). "Reflections on the United Kingdom's first public health film festival". Perspectives in Public Health. 136 (1): 23–24. doi:10.1177/1757913915619120. PMID   26702114. S2CID   21969020.
  2. ↑ Beth Hibbert (29 October 2013). "A film festival for health". BMJ. 347: f6509. doi:10.1136/bmj.f6509. PMID   24169093. S2CID   29866039 . Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. ↑ "Public Health Film Festival". IMDb .
  4. ↑ "Public Health Film Festival - TORCH". Torch.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Hoang, U.; Luna, P.; Russell, P.; Bergonzi-King, L.; Ashton, J.; McCarthy, C.; Donovan, H.; Inman, P.; Seminog, O.; Botchway, S. (1 March 2018). "First International Public Health Film Competition 2016—reflections on the development and use of competition judging criteria". Journal of Public Health . 40 (1): 169–174. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdx022 . PMID   28369436.
  6. ↑ "Public Health Film Competition 2016". Publichealthfilms.org. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "International Public Health Film Competition 2018". Publichealthfilms.org. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "International Public Health Film Competition 2020". Publichealthfilms.org. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  9. ↑ Hoang, U.; Sharma, K.; Russell, P.; Bergonzi-King, L.; Kapoor, N.; Rae, M.; Seminog, O. (4 February 2021). "Reflections on running an International Public Health Film Competition during the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for future film festivals". Journal of Communication in Healthcare . 14: 8–11. doi:10.1080/17538068.2021.1878751.
  10. ↑ https://betterhealthforall.org/2024/11/20/ai-and-public-health-film-a-collaboration-on-the-5th-international-public-health-film-competition/
  11. ↑ "'Lucy: Breaking the Silence' scoops our inaugural Audience Award". Publichealthfilms.org. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2018.


Clapperboard.svg

This article about a European film festival is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Flag of the United Kingdom.svg

This article related to a British festival is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.