Grant Proposal for a Feature Film Documentary to Reduce Human Morbidity and Mortality by Igniting Interest Among Global Leaders and the General Public to Adapt the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Cyberspace Open Access
Tolleson, Brian (Spring 2023)
Abstract
Public health begins with human rights. Championed by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an established framework for protecting human rights globally (United Nations, 1948). Since its establishment, the 30 Articles of the UDHR have helped advance and protect population health across the globe through their translation and adoption into laws, treaties, and policies across a wide range of public health areas, from HIV/AIDS and disease eradication, to sexual and reproductive health, to the very foundation of the World Health Organization’s policies, practices and approaches to global health (Gostin, 2018; Kismödi, 2018).
Today, however, most of the world’s 8 billion global citizens live an increasing portion of their lives online in cyberspace, almost 7 hours per day on average, with many of the world’s most health-challenged countries exceeding an average of 9 hours per day online (Datareportal, 2022). In cyberspace, there are currently no formal internationally recognized human rights treaties or protections, and the UDHR’s successful normative framework does not have explicit jurisdiction nor consistent application. And, already in today’s world, without the basic human rights protections online, we are seeing many precipitating negative health outcomes from disease and preventable injuries like Internet Gaming Disorder, Cyber Bullying, sleep disorders, Moral Disengagement, Cyberchondriasis and death by suicide (Ascher & Levounis, 2014; Guo, 2018; Kowalski, Lo Cricchio, 2021; Pollklas, 2020; 2008; Young, 1998).
This initial grant proposal under Ford Foundation’s JustFilms grant program will seek funding for a feature-length Educational Entertainment documentary to educate and ignite global support to pressure the United Nations and the United Nations Human Rights Council to craft and adopt an expansion of the UDHR to encompass the world of cyberspace, where humans have already begun inhabiting for large portions of their lives, forming a much-needed baseline for protecting public health globally today and well into the future.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I 3
Introduction and Rationale 3
Using Documentary Film to Create Public Pressure for Global Policymakers 4
Problem Statement 5
Purpose Statement 5
Goals and Objectives 6
Significance 7
Definition of Terms 9
CHAPTER II 11
Literature Review 11
The domain of cyberspace and the role of the United Nations 11
A Note about Future Worlds 12
Negative health effects in an unregulated cyberspace 14
The earliest days of research 14
An ever-expanding field of study 15
Not just Disease, but Deaths 16
Educational Entertainment 17
Positive public health policy effects from exposure to Educational Entertainment 17
Science and Filmmaking 17
Educational Entertainment (“Edutainment” or “E-E”) in Public Health 18
How Educational Entertainment Works 19
Figure 1. Quintero Johnson, Harrison and Quick: Experiential Involvement in Educational Entertainment documentaries (Johnson, 2012) 21
Evaluating the Success of Educational Entertainment Campaigns 22
Figure 2. Barrett and Leddy’s Dimensions of Impact (Barrett & Leddy, 2009) 23
Challenges in the Use of Educational Entertainment 25
The ethical considerations for creating public health documentary films and Educational Entertainment 26
Protecting Subjects and Victims of Human Rights Abuses 28
Reducing the Likelihood of The “Werther Effect,” Imitative Acts in Depicting Suicide 28
CHAPTER III 30
Methodology of Grant Review Process 30
Ford Foundation and JustFilms Grants 30
The rationale for choosing the JustFilms Grant 31
Reviewer Committee 31
Daniel C. Rutz, MPH, Thesis Chair 31
Matthew H. Bernstein, Ph.D., Field Advisor 32
Dabney P. Evans, Ph.D., MPH, Reviewer 32
Elisabeth Hayes, MBA, Reviewer 33
Sheryl Golub, MA, MPH, Reviewer 34
The Protection of Human Subjects 35
CHAPTER IV 38
Incorporation of Reviewers’ Comments 38
Reviewer 1, Daniel Rutz, MPH Comments 38
Reviewer 2, Dabney P. Evans, Ph.D., MPH Comments 46
Reviewer 3, Lisa Hayes, MBA Comments 53
Reviewer 4, Matthew H. Bernstein, Ph.D. Comments 57
Reviewer 5, Sheryl Golub, MPH, MA Comments 63
CHAPTER V 69
Final Grant Proposal 69
Grant Proposal: Ford Foundation JustFilms Grant 69
Brian Tolleson 74
The Task Force for Global Health (example for academic purposes only) 75
National Center for Civil and Human Rights (example for academic purposes only) 76
The Carter Center (example for academic purposes only) 77
Appendix 1 81
Budget 81
Appendix 2 91
Goals and Objectives 91
Appendix 3 93
Logic Model Framework 93
Figure 3. Grant applicant’s larger framework for addressing Future Worlds, Human Rights, and Public Health 94
Bibliography 97
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