Global Health Calendar: Add an Event (see below)The Global Health Events Calendar is open (for posting as well as learning about events) to the entire Penn community. Whenever you learn of events that are relevant to global health, please feel free to add these items to the Global Health Events Calendar. To do so, simply follow these steps:
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Global Health in Entertainment Media
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| 11th Hour | Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this captivating documentary explores the perilous state of our planet, and the means by which we can change our course. Contributing to this crucial film are noted politicians, scientists and other ambassadors for the importance of a universal ecological consciousness. (http://wip.warnerbros.com/11thhour/) | X |
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| Blood Diamond | Set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999, the film shows a country torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces.[1] The film portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to stop them from voting in upcoming elections. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/) | X |
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| Born Into Brothels | Within the Red Light District of Calcutta this documentary explores the hopeless lives of the sons and daughters of prostitutes through photography and film. The director (Zana Briski) is determined to use the photography to provide the children with the opportunity for higher education, hope and a better life. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/) |
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| Closer Walk | This documentary examines the world AIDS crisis. The camera travels to Africa, where infections overwhelm the public health system and orphans face their own deaths, central Europe, where drug users spread the disease via shared needles, India, where husbands infect wives, and to the U.S., where grass-roots efforts in places like Kansas City confront cultural stereotypes. Interviews include patients, doctors, nurses, the Dalai Lama, and Kofi Annan. The film's tone is compassionate and urgent, the statistics overwhelming. The message: the AIDS epidemic, history's worst, continues. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375663/) | X |
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| CMC: A Healing God | You will meet doctors who are committed to providing the best of healthcare for the India's poor and needy and nurses who continue the maternity tradition that brought CMC to life. See how science and technology enhances communities that have been touched by the modern world and encounter the tragedy of lives lived in poverty. Discover a special place that goes beyond charity and experience what million already know - CMC is the Home of a healing God. |
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| Constant Gardener | A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387131/) |
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| Donka : X-Ray of an African Hospital | Over the years the hospital has accumulated substantial debt that neither the Guinean state nor international agencies will pay. Compelled to develop its financial autonomy, the hospital enforces a pay-as-you-go policy. This financial strategy is rigorously applied, but at a high human cost. In this hospital of last resort, families strive to save a child or parent, but without money, there are no drugs and little chance for survival. Revenues rise, but access to treatment diminishes. (http://icarusfilms.com/new97/donka___x.html) |
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| Flow | Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. (http://www.flowthefilm.com/) |
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| Hotel Rwanda | The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/) | X |
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| Inconvenient Truth | With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization. (http://www.climatecrisis.net/) | X |
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| Lost Boys of Sudan | Lost Boys of Sudan is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows two Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America. Safe at last from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia. (http://www.lostboysfilm.com/) |
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| Painted Veil | A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446755/) | X |
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| Philadelphia | When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107818/) | X |
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| RX for Survival -- A Global Health Challenge | This groundbreaking PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) series examines what makes us sick, what keeps us healthy, and what it would take to give good health the upper hand. Narrated by Brad Pitt. Series originally broadcast in November 2005. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/) | X |
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| Salud! | A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, ¡Salud!looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’ (http://www.saludthefilm.net/ns/main.html) | X |
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| Shape of Water | In an intimate encounter with five very different women in Brazil, India, Jerusalem, and Senegal (narrated by Susan Sarandon with introductory narration co-written by Edwidge Danticat) THE SHAPE OF WATER offers a close look at the far reaching and vibrant alternatives crafted by women in response to environmental degradation, archaic traditions, lack of economic independence and war. (http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/) | X |
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| Sicko | A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/) | X |
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| Yesterday | Yesterday, written and directed by South African filmmaker Daryl James Roodt, is about a poor, young HIV-positive mother struggling to raise her daughter alone in a desolate landscape, while coming to terms with her imminent death from AIDS. (http://www.yesterdaythemovie.co.za/) | X |
Global Health Education/Training
On May 31, 2008, a 90 minute session was held in Washington, DC, at the annual meeting of the Global Health Council to discuss training materials in global health. The session began with three presentations from three different entities that are developing open access materials that can be used for education and training in global health. To read a summary of the meeting and view .pdfs of the presentations, see the links below:
Summary of Training Module Discussion (Carol McLaughlin)
Global Health Education Consortium Presentation (Tom Hall)
Global Health Training Introduction (Neal Nathanson)
Health Sciences Online (Neal Nathanson for Erica Frank)
Last updated: October 30, 2009
