Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program, convened this discussion among top Hollywood writers and keynote speaker Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This Writers Guild of America, West, event offered compelling…
Hollywood Health & Society: A World of Stories – Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program, convened this discussion among top Hollywood writers and keynote speaker Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
If you were given the chance to save eight lives, wouldn’t you take it? The Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society program organized this panel discussion so that health experts could explain leading-edge technology and therapy and expose the myths of organ donation. Hear personal stories about the second…
Mar. 24, 2010: Global Health in Lights: Hollywood, Health & Society in Washington, D.C. – Part 1 Sandra de Castro Buffington, director of the Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society program, moderated this discussion which brought top TV producers, writers and performers together with key Washington policymakers to…
Hear compelling stories about addiction – from substance abuse to treatment and recovery. Learn from recovered addicts, medical experts, specialists in drug and tobacco policy, and TV writers who have turned stories about addiction into top-rated television shows.
Winners of the 10th annual Sentinel for Health Awards were recognized at the Writers Guild of America, West, on September 23, 2009. ER, Desperate Housewives and Sesame Street took top honors. The Sentinel for Health Awards recognize exemplary achievements of television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make…
The Norman Lear Center presents the annual Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment Education to Dr. Garth Japhet. Japhet will present Me, Mandela and the Media: A story of edutainment for social change in post-apartheid South Africa. Japhet created the pioneering multimedia edutainment platform Soul City, which began…
The Sentinel for Health Awards recognize exemplary achievements of television storylines that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives.
David Poindexter, the founder and former president of Population Communications International, is the 2008 recipient of the Everett M. Rogers Award for Achievement in Entertainment-Education. The Rogers Award honors exceptional creativity in the practice of entertainment-education and excellence in research on the use of entertainment to deliver pro-social messages aimed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjIbKaSXM3A Stanford psychologist Albert Bandura discusses his pioneering work in the area of social learning and social cognitive theory, including its direct influence on the design of the original entertainment education telenovelas in Mexico.
