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American Public Health Association: Environment • Health • You

How did we get here, where are we going? This short film presents a historical overview of public and environmental health in the United States over the past century. It’s a complex story of the interconnections between air, water, soil, food production and distribution, chemicals, population, climate change, national, state and local policy, and communities [...]

National Center for Atmospheric Research: Air • Planet • People

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a federally funded research and development center devoted to service, research and education in the atmospheric and related sciences. NCAR’s mission is to understand the behavior of the atmosphere and related physical, biological and social systems; to support, enhance and extend the capabilities of the university community and [...]

A Garden in Every Neighborhood

Since 2004, Denver Urban Gardens and the Colorado School of Public Health have worked together through the Gardens for Growing Healthy Communities community-based research initiative to explore how gardens, as neighborhood places, support healthy living. In A Garden in Every Neighborhood, community gardeners, researchers, and public health professionals tell their stories about the positive impacts that community gardens have had on their lives [...]

Cool Girls

The Cool Girls Science and Art Club was founded by a group of 8-year-olds who love learning about science, technology, engineering, the arts and math. They made this video about their club. Each one took a turn filming, recording sound, directing and being on camera. They collectively chose the music, sound effects, and wrote the [...]

SHAKEN: Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson’s Patient

Paul Schroder graduated at the top of his class in electrical engineering, and then was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. After a decade of being on medication and growing increasingly debilitated, he decides that radical brain surgery is preferable to sitting on the couch like a vegetable for the rest of his life. While Paul lies [...]

PBS/KBDI: COLORADO COMMITMENT

A documentary series about global health and sustainability Today we are living on a planet with 6.5 billion people. 1.2 billion are living without clean water. 2.4 billion do not have access to sanitation. 29,000 children die every day for reasons that are purely preventable. Global health clearly requires more than just traditional approaches to [...]

Centura Health: Medical Missions

Centura Health, the largest health care provider in Colorado, delivers high quality, technologically advanced, compassionate health and wellness care where people need it most and when they need it most. This short documentary follows teams of physicians to the world’s poorest countries, and shows how medical mission work can be healing and transformative for the [...]

Blue Sky Bridge: A Short Film about Child Abuse

WINNER: 2010 Gold Communicator Award of Excellence. Most of us only think about child abuse when we hear about it in the news. But the cold reality is that one of every four girls and one of every six boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18. Child abuse can also be physical, [...]