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.

 

  • Melody Mpande headshot
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    Melody Mpande is a reporter based in Matabeleland South. Mpande covers health and education. She is a lead reporter for the project State of Education in Matabeleland.

    March 13, 2023
  • Matthew Kavanagh headshot
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    Matthew M. Kavanagh is an assistant professor of global health and visiting professor of law at Georgetown University. He also serves as director of the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at...

    January 11, 2023
  • Sifa Bahati headshot
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    Sifa Bahati

    Sifa Bahati is a reporter based in Butembo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She documents the multiple humanitarian crises in her community, including the ways in which people cope with historic...

    October 24, 2022
  • JosephineChinele
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    Josephine Chinele is a Malawian multi-award-winning, international, investigative journalist. She has 19 years of media experience across various platforms, and she has worked in newsrooms in Malawi...

    October 18, 2022
  • Portrait of JD Pells
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    JD Pells is a multimedia journalist from Maui, Hawaii. He spent four years in newsrooms in Hawaii and Texas before earning his bachelor's degree in journalism in 2022. His mission statement is to act...

    July 26, 2022
  • Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman
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    Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman is a multiple Pulitzer Center grantee and an award-winning journalist based in Ghana. He works as a senior reporter and news presenter at the EIB Network (GHOne TV and StarrFM)...

    July 15, 2021
  • Ricardo Barbar headshot
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    Ricardo Barbar is a feature writer and health reporter at Prodavinci interested in rare diseases, cancer, COVID-19, and access to drinking water. He was nominated for a Premio Gabo journalism award...

    June 15, 2020
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    Nsikan Akpan

    Nsikan Akpan runs the health and science desk at WNYC/Gothamist. Akpan was previously at National Geographic, where he worked as a science editor, overseeing its COVID-19 coverage in addition to other...

    November 17, 2017