The Public Health Film Society (PHFS), is a charity registered in the UK (no. 1160590). It was established in 2014 by four public health specialist from Oxford - Dr Uy Hoang, Dr Olena Seminog, Dr Sam Williamson and Dr Stella Botchway, most of whom had been involved in the Oxford Public Health Film Club. The charity was set up with the aim of 'bringing together people from many different backgrounds, to encourage them to share their knowledge, skills, and experience, and be inspired through the medium of film to understand public health, and work towards overcoming the public health challenges we all face'. PHFS constitution was adopted in 2014 and it was registered with the

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in 2015. It is the first and only independent

film society A film society is a membership-based club where people can watch screenings of films which would otherwise not be shown in mainstream cinemas. In Spain, Ireland and Italy, they are known as "cineclubs", and in Germany they are known as "filmclubs" ...

devoted to films about

health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

. The first president was Dr Stella Botchway (2014-2015). She oversaw the adoption of the constitution and the launch of the first ever

Public Health Film Festival The Public Health Film Festival (PHFF) is a film festival organised by the Public Health Film Society (PHFS). The PHFF debuted in 2014, and takes place every two years. It specialises in screening films about health and is listed with the Internet ...

in the UK. She would later go on to become a researcher at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The second and current president is Dr Uy Hoang (2015–present). He oversaw the 2nd and 3rd editions of the

and the launch of the International Public Health Film Competition. He is a health researcher currently at the

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. In addition to helping to organise the

and the International Public Health Film Competition, the PHFS undertakes a number of other works to promote conversations between the health and artistic communities about public health messages in film, and to promote transparency in the portray of health messages to the general public. This work includes the distribution of correspondence and peer-reviewed research on health films. The PHFS is an affiliate member of the

British Federation of Film Societies The British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS), which has used the trading name Cinema For All since 2014, is the national organisation for the development and support of the film society and community cinema movement in the United Kingdom. In ...

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