Festival of Global Health
The Festival of Global Health was launched in Autumn 2023. We hosted six events during the 2023/24 academic year covering a wide range of topics relevant to global health. At each event, we screened a film followed by a panel discussion including film makers and academic experts and finish with a social event. Over 500 people have attended the events in total.
The Festival of Global Health is continuing in the 2024/25 academic year.
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Upcoming events 2024/25
Covid Century
Date: Wednesday 21 May 2025
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
This event includes a screening of Covid Century, and will be followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
past events 2024/25
The Divide
Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
This event included a screening of The Divide, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
Human Forever
Date: Wednesday 13 November 2024
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
This event included a screening of Human Forever, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
past events 2023/24
We started with The Cancer Conflict, exploring issues around patient autonomy, and the role of misinformation and disinformation in influencing choices people diagnosed with cancer make about their care. El Susto follows the interplay of industry, policy and health in tackling the diabetes and obesity crisis in Mexico. Lovesick is a wonderfully poignant documentary exploring the stigma surrounding patients diagnosed with HIV in India, and the work of Dr Suniti Solomon, a pioneer in delivery of HIV care in the subcontinent.
We discussed the impact of diet on health, and the factors that influence the choices people make about food they eat with the screening I Could Never Go Vegan, and provided entirely plant based catering for the social event. The penultimate event of the year was about the rising threat of global antimicrobial resistance with the screening of Silent Pandemic, and was followed by a discussion about how to tackle urgent need for coordinated action to tackle the challenge. Our final event of the year was a screening of Survivors, a documentary that was filmed during the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014, following the lived experience of a street kid, ambulance driver and nurse through the epidemic.
You can read more about each event on the specific webpage.
Survivors
Date: Wednesday 12 June 2024
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
This event included a screening of Survivors, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
Silent Pandemic
Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
This event included a screening of Silent Pandemic, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
I Could Never Go Vegan
Date: Thursday 18 April 2024
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Oxford
Prior to its official cinema release on Friday 19 April, this event featured a screening of I Could Never Go Vegan, and was followed by a panel discussion and social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
Lovesick
Date: Thursday 7 March 2024
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Cinema, Oxford Westgate
This event included a screening of Lovesick, followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
El Susto
Date: Wednesday 29 November 2023
Time: 16:00
Location: The Curzon Cinema, Oxford Westgate
This event included a screening of El Susto, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage
The Cancer Conflict
Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 17:00
Location: The Richard Doll Theatre, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford
This event included a screening of The Cancer Conflict, and was followed by a panel discussion and a social event.
For further information, visit the event's webpage.
The Oxford Festival of Global Health is financially supported by grant awarded to Toral Gathani and Sarah Lewington from the Van Houten fund at the University of Oxford.