Public Health
Public health focuses on the systematic prevention of disease and prolonging of life by governments, NGO’s and other groups. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Public Health” feature reporting on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the development of medical systems and infrastructure to provide public access to health care services. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on public health.
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![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "The cover of the book, "Countdown" by Alan Weisman. Image by Little, Brown and Company.")
Pulitzer Center Update
Review of Alan Weisman's 'Countdown'
Alan Weisman, the author of bestseller "The World Without Us," says population is going in the wrong...
September 23, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
How ‘Roads Kill’: Pulitzer Center Visualizes Global Safety Crisis
Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley explains the "Roads Kill" project and it's interactive map...
September 19, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Joanne Silberner Wins Victor Cohn Prize for Cancer Series
Joanne Silberner wins another award, the 2013 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science...
September 18, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Poisoning the Pacific
We know that carbon dioxide emissions are affecting the planet’s climate. Now it appears that these...
September 17, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-23-13/countdown.jpg.webp?h=481387e6&itok=3djlILYf "The cover of the book, "Countdown" by Alan Weisman. Image by Little, Brown and Company.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-17-13/silberner2.jpg.webp?h=f4aeaa6d&itok=9g3KJWmJ ""The Infectious Connection: Part IV of V" was featured on PRI, PBS NewsHour and BBC News. This is the story's photo of Veronica Alebo, a young Burkitt's lymphoma patient, who has a large tumor in her abdomen and receives treatment at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala. Image by Jacqueline Koch. Uganda, 2012.")
