HH&S has connected many TV writers to experts from the CDC and other organizations on a variety of cancer-related topics. These consultations have resulted in television storylines dealing with lymphoma, leukemia, breast cancer, melanoma, brain tumors, and many more. HH&S-authored tip sheets for writers on breast and cervical cancer are…
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. Created in partnership between HH&S and Neal Baer—director…
Writers described their trips to India and South Africa at a powerful panel discussion titled “Tales From the Field,” held June 14, 2011 at the Writers Guild of America, West. Saying that there was nothing more powerful than “direct experience,” Hollywood, Health & Society Director Sandra de Castro Buffington had…
Climate change was the topic for health experts and entertainment industry representatives during a panel discussion held by the Hollywood, Health & Society program at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on March 9, 2011. The panelists, which included Dr. George Luber of the Centers for Disease Control and…
HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington moderated a panel discussion titled “How Youth Drive Change” at the 7th annual UNESCO Youth Forum, held Oct. 17-20 at the organization’s headquarters in Paris. Despite their critical roles in the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements, young people rarely…
HH&S held the global health panel discussion: “Never Say Die: 5 Simple Ways to Save a Life,” featuring Dr. Rajeev Venkayya, MD, Director of Global Health Vaccine Delivery for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Larry Kaplow, Consulting Producer for the hit series HOUSE, MD (FOX), and many others…
HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington is interviewed on “TV Tackles Cancer,” a special report on CNN that aired Sept. 13, 2010 (her discussion begins at 01:50). “Fifteen years ago there was a lot of stigma around cancer,” Buffington says in the report. “People did not talk about it the…
Hollywood, Health & Society announced the winners of this year’s Sentinel for Health Awards at a moving ceremony, followed by a panel discussion with the writers on September 22 at the Writers Guild of America, West, in Los Angeles. Check back soon for video! In its eleventh year, the Sentinel for Health Awards recognizes exemplary…
The 2010 Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education was awarded on September 22, 2010 to Dr. Martine Bouman, director of the Center Media & Health in the Netherlands. Her career is a rare combination of roles as social scientist and educator, designer of EE campaigns, and public policy advocate. Her…
Listen to HH&S Director Sandra de Castro Buffington’s recent radio interview on Your Health, in which she talks about working with the entertainment industry to inform and inspire storylines on topics about public health and climate change.
