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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Pulitzer Center Update
LiveHopeLove.com noted in The Wall Street Journal's 'Speakeasy' blog
By Lam Thuy Vo Tonight, the crème de la crème of the Internet scene will be waltzing down the red...
June 8, 2009 -
Pulitzer Center Update
"Hope" selected as Communication Arts' site of the day
Communication Arts, the graphic design magazine, selected "Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in...
June 3, 2009 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Announcing the 2009 Student Reporting Fellows!
Students at Campus Consortium member schools were eligible to apply for reporting fellowships of up...
June 1, 2009
![1](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/kosovo%20girl.jpg.webp?h=9b087389&itok=qJ11ALud "A Roma girl stands near her home in the Chesmin Lug camp. Between 2005 and 2008, Zoran Savich, a pediatrician with the Health Center of Kosovo Mitrovica, saw more than 300 patients in Osterrode and Chesmin Lug. In that time, 77 people died of lead poisoning, many of them children. "I treated as many as I could but they were living in the same conditions and absorbing lead," Dr. Savich said. "When the treatments stopped, their levels went back up. It was useless."")
