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SUMMARY:Film Screening UNSEEN ENEMY with the director Janet Tobias  - Jane
 t Tobias\, Director\, Sierra Tango Productions &amp\; Dr Laurie Denyer Wil
 lis\, CGHR Research Associate
DTSTART:20180430T160000Z
DTEND:20180430T180000Z
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CONTACT:Romy Schirrmeister
DESCRIPTION:*A film by Janet Tobias of Sierra Tango Productions*\n\n_Runni
 ng time 97 minutes followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Janet Tobi
 as and Dr Laurie Denyer Willis (CGHR)_\n\nIn the 21st century\, we are all
  connected. Population growth\, mass urbanization\, deforestation\, climat
 e change and increased travel have dramatically increased the risk that fa
 miliar diseases will spread and mutate\, and new ones will emerge. As peop
 le enter new spheres of biodiversity\, they come into closer contact with 
 other species\, increasing the risk of viruses jumping from animals to hum
 ans\, and then spreading more widely.\nUnseen Enemy is an essential explor
 ation of the reasons why 21st-century populations are experiencing a rash 
 of diseases that were once only outbreaks\, but have now become full-blown
  epidemics. This increased risk that we face\, and the ways society and in
 dividuals can work together to reduce that risk\, are explained to the pub
 lic through the case studies of three epidemics: Ebola\, influenza and Zik
 a.\n\n*Trailers:*\n\n"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvX8_nEMxg":https:/
 /www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvX8_nEMxg\n\n"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O
 ZgBg8vYKk4":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZgBg8vYKk4\n\n*Panelist Bios:
 *\n*Janet Tobias* is an Emmy-Award winning filmmaker with parallel careers
  in medicine/technology and film/television. Tobias started her film and t
 elevision career at CBS’ 60 Minutes as Diane Sawyer’s associate produc
 er. She then worked as a producer at ABC News’ Prime Time and as the edi
 torial producer for ABC’s legal and criminal justice coverage. Later\, s
 he worked as a national producer at Dateline NBC\, and then as an executiv
 e producer at VNI (which became New York Times Television). After working 
 at the networks\, she moved to PBS where she created and executive produce
 d the Emmy Award-winning PBS program Life 360. In 2001\, Tobias founded he
 r own television/film production company Sierra/ Tango Productions. In the
  last decade\, Sierra/Tango has produced over a dozen documentaries on soc
 ial issues ranging from medical ethics to the life of teenagers in America
 .\n\n*Dr Laurie Denyer Willis* is a medical anthropologist at the London S
 chool of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Research Associate at CGHR. H
 er research considers the urban and political ecologies of health and dise
 ase in postcolonial landscapes. She has conducted long-term ethnographic r
 esearch on Pentecostalism\, race and public health in Brazil. She is curre
 ntly engaged in a project on epidemics\, public health communications\, an
 d artificial intelligance (AI)\, with and emphasis on the Zika virus in Lu
 sophone Africa.\n\n*Order your free tickets "here":https://www.eventbrite.
 co.uk/e/cghr-film-screening-unseen-enemy-with-the-director-janet-tobias-ti
 ckets-44791327065*
LOCATION:Fitzpatrick Hall\, Queens' College
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