ISNTD Festival 2025
Creative industries, science communication & public engagement for global health
Online conference
2-3 April 2025
#ISNTDFestival
Introduction
The ISNTD Festival brings together communication, arts, entertainment and science to help complex public health messages reach patients, the public and global health professionals worldwide. Welcome to the seventh annual ISNTD Festival!
The aim of our ISNTD Festival has always been to explore the black box between the end of operational research and actual change, whether that change is at policy level or indeed at community level. This change in mindsets, behavior and ultimately policy is inevitable but it's up to us as a community to direct that change.
ISNTD Showcase
The ISNTD Festival Showcase brings together outstanding material from the creative industries, the arts, science & research, and science communication on the themes of Neglected Tropical Diseases, diseases of poverty behaviour change and advocacy.
Discover the ISNTD Showcase here and the rich and varied approaches developed to explain, share and tackle some of the most complex issues in neglected tropical diseases across numerous formats and media, from film and photo, to books, apps and gaming, audio, theatre, art, behaviour change campaigns and much more!
ISNTD Festival Awards
Each year, the ISNTD Festival brings together some of the most exciting creative work aiming to tackle complex challenges in tropical and infectious diseases. These projects are entered for consideration as part of the ISNTD Festival Awards. Please email Marianne Comparet (comparetm@isntd.org) to enter the 2025 ISNTD Festival Awards.
The awards we give out are for film, tv, radio, print, campaigns, comics, apps, gaming, theatre and are broad categories so that we can include the widest possible spectrum of amazing communication efforts worldwide.
Links to previous ISNTD Festivals
ISNTD Festival 2022 , ISNTD Festival 2021 , ISNTD Festival 2020 , ISNTD Festival: 2018 , ISNTD Festival 2017
Programme
Presentations and panel discussion will be running April 2-3, 2025, online from 8:30-16:00 UTC. This event is free to attend; please register in the box above or email comparetm@isntd.org directly. Please note that we have an extended deadline for submissions of material on March 28th, 2025.
This year's sessions will cover:
- Art, science communication & infectious diseases showcase (from film to photography via poetry, apps and podcasts)
- Ethical storytelling & neglected tropical diseases
- Affected persons and communicating about neglected diseases
- Film club
- Creative approaches to community engagement
- Book panel
Please look out for our detailed programme coming soon!
The International Society for Neglected Tropical Diseases
