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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Tajikistan: Drugs, Guns, Water
Tajikistan is chronically unstable and corrupt—and now bracing for more chaos from Afghanistan. Its...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Penn Announces 2013 Pulitzer Center Student Fellows Diksha Bali and Luke Messac
Two Penn students named 2013 Pulitzer Center International Student Reporting Fellows.
May 31, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Q&A with Larry C. Price on His "Cost of Gold" Project
Dan Havlik of Imaging Resource interviews grantee and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Larry C...
May 31, 2013 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week in Review: “When we rape we feel free.”
Executive Director Jon Sawyer shares the week's reporting— from Congolese soldiers in court to the...
May 26, 2013
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-31-13/untoldstories_holes_price_burkinafaso01.jpg.webp?h=521b0eb9&itok=8U_pPm4r "Barefoot and shirtless, Karim Sawadogo, 9, works with his uncle at a gold mine. He has been to school, but only for a while. "My dream," he says, "is to make enough money so I don't have to do this anymore." Image by Larry C. Price. Burkina Faso, 2013.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-29-13/nyaya_bayalpata_001.jpg.webp?h=1116cd87&itok=cAIOo8LZ "A group of Community Health Worker Leaders (CHWL's) gather for their twice-weekly meeting at Bayalpata Hospital, a health facility run by Nyaya Health, in Bayalpata, Achham, in the far western region of Nepal, November 23, 2012. Nyaya pays the CHWL's and teaches them basic health skills, which they in turn teach to village-level Female Community Health Volunteers. The term "nyaya" is a Nepali word that roughly translates to "the actualization of justice" and is the core of Nyaya Health's unique open source approach to rural health care. Image by Allison Shelley. Nepal, 2013.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-21-13/ec1.jpg.webp?h=5d5b1249&itok=hQkog5Qh "Public health is as much about medicine as it is about culture, GPEI has learned. So, local elders, and sometimes members of the local clergy, are given the title of "influencer." They accompany vaccinators or station themselves at vaccination booths. Their task is to convince parents that the vaccine is safe for the child to consume. Image by Esha Chhabra. India, 2013.")
