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Events Calendar
Hollywood, Health & Society hosts and participates in a variety of events throughout the year. Besides our annual Sentinel for Health Awards dinner and award ceremony and the Everett M. Rogers awards, these include panel discussions at the Writers Guild of America West, research conferences, and workshops across the globe. Please check back to this area frequently for information on upcoming events as well as highlights from past events including photos, videos, and transcripts.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
 Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S), a program of the USC Annenberg School's Norman Lear Center, announces a call for entries for the 13th annual Sentinel for Health Awards. The deadline for all entries is June 15, 2012. The Sentinel for Health Awards, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recognizes exemplary achievements of television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives. Eight categories of storylines will be recognized: primetime drama, primetime comedy, primetime minor storyline, daytime drama, Spanish-language telenovela, children's programming, global health, and climate change.
Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm
 Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) is excited to announce its next Storybus Tour, the second of its signature research trips for TV writers to various Los Angeles locations. HH&S, working in collaboration with co-chairs Dr. Neal Baer, executive producer of A Gifted Man (CBS), and Christopher Keyser, president of Writers Guild of America, West, will conduct its next tour on Saturday, June 9, 2012, offering participants the chance to meet and be inspired by stories from community activists fighting for environmental justice, addressing toxic housing and building healthier communities. The bus will leave from the WGAW building at 9 a.m. and return at 5 p.m.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
 Hollywood, Health and Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington will deliver a special briefing at the Roybal Campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta on May 22, exploring strategies, case studies and best practices used to incorporate public health messages into television storylines. On March 23, Buffington will be the guest speaker at a HIV/AIDS presentation sponsored by the Prevention Communication Branch of CDC, where she'll talk about "Stories That Change Lives: Increasing Accuracy in TV Storylines and Measuring Impact on Viewers."
Monday, May 21, 2012
 Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington will participate in a summit meeting in Atlanta on May 21 titled “Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Global Health and Water. The conference, which is being co-sponsored by the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta and CARE USA, will outline the “principles and policies that will be needed to sustain America’s leadership in improving people’s health worldwide.“ It will feature leading representatives from government, non-governmental organizations, business, universities and others. Buffington will take part in a discussion titled “Public Opinion on U.S. Support for Global Health,” which will be moderated by Dr. J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 12:00pm - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 12:00am
 Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington spoke at a communications workshop on Tuesday, May 1 at the InterAction Forum 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop, “Get Your Message Heard During a Crowded Electoral Year,” explored how to use movies, TV and other forms of entertainment to spread awareness and advocacy of global issues. InterAction comprises more than 190 member organizations—faith-based and secular—working in developing countries to improve the lives of the poor, ensure human rights and safeguard a sustainable planet. The annual event serves as a meeting ground for leaders of non-governmental organizations, as well as decision-makers in government and representatives of the nonprofit, corporate and philanthropic sectors, and development experts.
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 11:45am - 3:30pm
 Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington delivered a keynote address about working with scriptwriters to create global health storylines at the Vaccines and New Media “Film Festival” on Friday, March 16 in Washington, D.C. She presented clips of TV storylines created with HH&S input, including vaccines on NBC's “Law & Order: SVU,” traumatic brain injury on Lifetime's "Army Wives" and HIV/AIDS on CBS's “The Bold and the Beautiful. ”The event, presented by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and SmartGlobalHealth.org, explored how global health organizations and private foundations are making the case for U.S. investments in worldwide immunization—using online videos and social media to reach policymakers and the American public.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
 Cancer does not discriminate. The disease affects young and old, rich and poor, from all walks of life. In this invitation-only event—presented by Hollywood, Health & Society in partnership with the Writers Guild of America, West—top-notch screenwriters, medical experts, cancer survivors and educators will discuss the science, stories and solutions regarding this pervasive disease. Dr. Lisa Richardson, Associate Director for Science, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will deliver the keynote address.
Monday, March 5, 2012
 Hollywood, Health & Society launched its Storybus Tours, a signature series of research trips for TV writers to various locations—this time to gather first-hand reports from those working to ease gang violence in the schools and on the streets of Los Angeles. Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of HH&S, modeled the tour on the overseas research trips for writers she led in South Africa and India last May.The inaugural Storybus trip on Jan. 18, which started in the morning at the Writers Guild of America, West, featured three stops, 15 or so excited participants, a lunchtime full of conversation and, in the end, an education. Said one writer after the tour: "As you can imagine it has taken us a few days to digest and integrate it all. The powerful things we witnessed and heard continue to reverberate within each of us. A simple ‘thank you’ doesn’t seem to express the gratefulness and appreciation that [we] feel for having had this unique experience."
Friday, January 20, 2012
 Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of Hollywood, Health & Society, was invited to address the creative team and advisory board of the Hub TV Channel on Jan. 20 in Burbank. The Hub TV Channel, a joint venture of Discovery Communications Inc. and Hasbro, creates straight-on programming for children, and Buffington's presentation centered on health and safety messages, and the role HH&S has played in working with kids show.
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