Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman

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Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and an award-winning broadcast journalist and news presenter in Ghana.

He is a regular contributor on the U.S. public radio program The World as a freelance journalist reporting on science, global health inequities, racism, and sustainable development. He has reported from India, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Sierra Leone. He holds a bachelor's degree in communication studies from the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

Dini-Osman was a recipient of the 2018 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, a prestigious global award from the European Commission. He also won the 2021 International Center for Journalists’ Global Health Crisis Award for COVID-19 reporting. He was Ghana's 2017 Best Reporter in Development Journalism, and he received the 2016 Best Journalist Award in Rural Reporting from the Ghana Journalists Association.

In addition, he is a 2023 Atlantic fellow for Health Equity at the George Washington University. He was the inaugural recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications, given by the scientific National Academies of the United States.

Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman