New Resources for Healthy Futures

Image

Healthy Futures, Informed Communities

What does a healthy future look like for all people?

We are exploring that question this month through several initiatives supported by the Pulitzer Center. Engagement is embedded into our journalism model, reaching audiences who need to read and hear our stories. 

Launched this week, Ode to Healthy Futures is a collaborative platform where you can use poetry, science, and journalism to find solutions for global health issues. Created in partnership with the Wick Poetry Center’s Poets for Science project, Ode to Healthy Futures aims to make health science stories accessible and inspire people to make personal connections to the science that shapes our lives. Learn how to submit a poem to Healthy Futures by clicking here. 

The Local Letters for Global Change contest invites K-12 students to respond to Pulitzer Center journalism by writing a letter to their local representative. The contest allows students to practice media literacy and supports student engagement with issues that impact them and their communities. We’ve curated stories for each Pulitzer Center focus area, including Global Health. Submissions are open until November 15, 2024.

We’re also looking at how health policies and elections impact healthy futures. Ahead of the U.S. election, make sure to check out recent stories from our StoryReach U.S. Fellows:

• “Some Louisiana Patients Struggle To Fill Reproductive Care Prescriptions Under New Drug Law”
• “Toxic Inaction: Oakland’s Lead Funding Languishes as Residents Live With Serious Health Risks”
• “Toxic Air and a Maternal Mortality Crisis in America’s Steel Town”

These programs and related reporting are part of Beyond the News, a new series from the Pulitzer Center that dives deeper into our health reporting and provides resources for educators and professionals to make informed decisions and take action in their communities. Stay tuned for more information as we share these global health-related resources throughout November.

Through our global health and democracy initiatives, we are supporting vital reporting and audience engagement in an effort to build a healthier and more informed world. Read more health and democracy stories—and stay tuned for the Beyond the News series, starting next week. 

Best,

Image

Impact

On October 24, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the 24 winners of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications. 

• Miguel Dobrich, a grantee of the Pulitzer Center's Our Work/Environment reporting initiative, won an award for his team’s local reporting, scientific research, LiDAR, and satellite analysis on how rising seas are impacting vulnerable groups of workers along Uruguay’s coast: artisanal fishermen, domestic workers, and commuters. 
• Grantee Clare Fieseler won a top prize for work in the Charleston, South Carolina, outlet The Post and Courier covering the history of deep sea mining in the Atlantic and how one scientist took on studying its effects as the Southeastern U.S. positions itself as a hub for electric vehicle manufacturing.
• Alec Luhn, a current Ocean Reporting Network Fellow, won an award for his project Why Are Alaskan Rivers Rusting?. His stories tackle the challenges faced by Alaskans as climate change causes frozen conditions to thaw, threatening ecosystems and challenging infrastructure. 

Read more about the winners here. 

Photo of the Week

Image

This message first appeared in the November 1, 2024, edition of the Pulitzer Center's weekly newsletter. Subscribe today.

Click here to read the full newsletter.