The Breakthrough Health Film Festival at Tulane University is an inspiring showcase of storytelling through film that promotes health and wellness, aiming to spark conversations, foster understanding, and inspire action toward a healthier society for all. Films and post-screening conversations will shine a light on human stories from community builders, advocates, filmmakers, producers, and artists, to broaden our perspective on the challenges and triumphs shaping our understanding of health and well-being today. These voices offer fresh insights into the social and systemic issues impacting our communities.
To set the stage for the three-day event, the festival will kick off with the screening and post-screening conversation of The Skin You’re In, a documentary that explores the fact that Black Americans live sicker and die younger than any other ethnic group in the nation. Through discussions with leading experts and stories from extraordinary individuals, the film highlights the realities of the issues and the people taking positive action to heal their lives, their families, and their communities.
Additional feature films and shorts will be announced soon.
Attendance is free, and registration will open in January 2025.
Sponsors
The institute is comprised of centers, research projects, and individual researchers who explore unjust patterns in the distribution of diseases that are avoidable and preventable.
Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative) is a research learning collaborative designed to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies.
The Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health educates passionate students who want to make a difference in the health and well-being of populations around the globe. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the curve of the Mississippi River, we are the public health school of the South.
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Activities led and hosted by Partners for Advancing Health Equity are free and open to all who share the common goal of a future where everyone has the ability to live the healthiest life possible. Captions are provided for all virtual activities.
Support for Partners for Advancing Health Equity is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
