Hollywood, Health & Society has announced a call for entries for the 2014 Sentinel Awards to recognize TV shows and movies that inform, educate and motivate viewers to make choices for healthier and safer lives. Fact sheet | Press release | Entry…
Produced By, the magazine for the membership of the Producers Guild of America, covered HH&S in its Jan-Feb. issue, calling the program “a one-stop shop for anything a writer, producer or researcher may need to know on any health or climate change issue you can name.” ➻ Read the …
Did you know some of the world’s most advanced research on climate change is being conducted in our own back yard? Join Hollywood, Health & Society on Jan. 8 for an exclusive, one-day trip to NASA’s world-renowned Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and meet some of the top scientists, artists, and visualization…
Hollywood, Health & Society’s signature Storybus Tour recently took writers and producers to explore communities in South and East L.A. that are fighting to improve access to healthier food. For decades, low-income areas have suffered from a lack of access to supermarkets and fresh, affordable groceries—communities known as “food swamps”—which can…
A NASA-JPL climate scientist made the global come into sharp local focus when he was asked during a recent panel about the vanishing ice in northern Greenland, the dramatic backdrop for the film Inuk and its story of traditional ways being threatened by global warming. ➻More photos on our Facebook page …
Hollywood, Health & Society co-hosted an exclusive event at the home of entertainment icon Norman Lear on Nov. 11, bringing together many of the industry’s top writers, producers and executives to hear presentations by leading climate specialists, with the goal of increasing the number of storylines about climate…
Hollywood, Health & Society held an invitation-only panel titled Affordable Me: The Face of Obamacare on the Ground & On the Air on July 22 at the Writers Guild of America, West, featuring TV writers/producers, health experts and community storytellers. Panelists included Dr. Zoanne Clack, executive producer, Grey’s Anatomy; Dr. Zachary Lutsky, writer, The…
India’s Bollywood and Nigeria’s Nollywood film industries are leveraging the power of entertainment in an effort to prevent disease and improve the quality of life for the hundreds of millions of viewers of their TV shows and films. A two-year, $2.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Hollywood,…
The California Endowment announced a $500,000 grant for Obamacare education to Hollywood Health & Society, a program at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center that provides entertainment industry professionals with accurate and timely information for storylines on health and climate change. The 18-month grant will be used to inform television…
Hollywood, Health & Society has announced 12 finalists from more than 70 entries for the 2013 Sentinel for Health Awards, showcasing a diverse range of topics such as alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, drug addiction, depression, malaria, climate change and mental illness. ➻Press release with full list of finalists …
