Shot in the Arm

Conversation with Michael D. Miller, MD, an independent health care communications, policy, and advocacy expert with significant vaccine and misinformation experience, will follow the film. Sponsored by Berkshire Health Systems Before anyone had heard of COVID-19, filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy (The Garden) began investigating the global measles epidemic. He interviewed top public health officials — including Tony Fauci — as well as anti-vaccine activists who were persuading parents by the millions to refuse vaccines for their children. When COVID-19 happened Kennedy shifted his directorial eye to this once-in-a-century tragedy. Both skeptical and hopeful, Shot in the Arm explores vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of our modern pandemic. Can we replace cynicism with healthy curiosity and bridge the political divides that make us sick? Michael D. Miller, MD is a health care communications, policy, and advocacy expert consultant with more than 30 years of experience helping to improve health care access and affordability, and advance innovations. He has worked on vaccine issues for many years, and during the COVID-19 pandemic he served on the board of the non-profit Why We Vax and continues to convene their Scientific Advisory Board, and in April he made a presentation at the World Vaccine Congress about how people can have productive conversations with their misinformed friends, family and co- workers. Dr. Miller is a graduate of Williams College and Yale School of Medicine; worked in the White House, NIH, and the U.S. Congress; and with large and small companies; and entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations. He has spoken and written extensively about the interactions across the health care delivery, financing, research, and public health systems.DocumentaryPT1H29M2024-05-20

Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Shot in the Arm"Shot in the Arm"

Showtimes

May 20, 7:15 pm