This award will build a robust research collaboration between two global universities (Peking University [PKU]-UCL) which are both institutionally committed to support the Medical and Health Humanities. We aim to stimulate debate in three domains where we share complementary research strengths, namely Philosophy, Justice and Health; Transcultural History of Medicine; Culture and Health. We will use film and digital humanities as a resource to draw out challenges in six high-priority health issues: diabetes; antimicrobial resistance; privacy and health information; medical philanthropy in China; cross-cultural psychotherapy; healthy ageing. The use of film as a method to identify cross-cultural challenges and break down barriers to communication has been piloted as a regular part of the Medical Humanities programmes of both universities. During 2016-17 we will create a platform to showcase research and development and elicit online discussion engaging our student community and the wider public in shaping research directions and creating digital solutions to our questions. A series of networking events (open seminar, film screenings, social media video, video-conferencing) and the first Medical and Digital Humanities Film Exhibition (November 2017) will enable the identification, development and writing up of the three strongest collaborative research funding proposals to be generated by the exercise.