In 2015, Gerri McHugh founded Global Health Film, driven by a desire to bring science-informed storytelling to wider audiences. A couple of months ago, in its ninth edition, the non-profit’s flagship annual event, the Global Health Film Festival (GHFF), continues to be, McHugh explains, “a convening space bringing together hundreds of global health professionals, thought-leaders, policy makers, students, and film-makers from all around the work to experience really great storytelling together, to discuss and debate the issues and the solutions, and to forge collaborations at the intersection of art and health…we are often talking to film-makers about their projects up to 5 years ahead of them hitting the big screen”. In this video, we summarized a paper from the Lancet about the GHFF which attracted many audiences.
By Payman Salamati, preventive and social medicine specialist, professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences
– Title of the paper: Storytelling and debate at the 2023 Global Health Film Festival
-URL of this article: thelancet.com