Short Films Screening: Global Issues& Health

Public health takes center stage in a variety of short films showcased on opening night. Plus, winners of the "It’s Global" Public Service Announcement contest will be screened.

Mayo Memorial Auditorium
425 Delaware St. SE University of Minnesota, East Bank Campus
Free and open to the public

Screening (in order of appearance):
Sauri’s Mother. A woman deals with her son’s AIDS diagnosis and securing healthcare for him -- post Iraq war.

Haitian Hope. Discusses post-natural disaster recovery in Haiti and challenges to implementing health care after natural disasters--finding people, making sure they have housing and medications, etc.

Side Effects. Side Effects tells the story of Henry Burnbaum, an elderly man who starts acting strangely after his dog dies. His wife thinks he’s had a stroke, but it might be something even harder to diagnose...

Medical Mistakes, A Culture of Denial is about owning up to medical mistakes and includes a few U of M med students, a pilot from Northwest Airlines, and other Minnesotans.

Multicultural Health Storytelling Project. The City of Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support and its Urban Health Agenda Community Advisory Committee have piloted intergenerational storytelling as a new community engagement process to inform the Department’s policy and programmatic work. Beginning in Dec 2006, storytelling events were completed and videotaped in the following communities: African American, American Indian, Caucasian, Hmong, Latino, Somali & Vietnamese. The primary focus of the events was to tell us about a time when families/communities were healthy. The results of this work support the overarching need to shift traditional health paradigms focused on individuals and needs towards FAMILIES and CULTURAL ASSETS in order to eliminate health disparities.

Speakers/Panelists

John Finnegan, Jr., professor and dean, assistant vice president for Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Gretchen Musicant, commissioner, Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support
Tony LookingElk, community facilitator, and program officer with Otto Bremer Foundation
Farhiya Farah, community facilitator, and director, Health and Nutrition at Parents in Community Action Head Start in Minneapolis