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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Agent Orange in Laos
Severe disabilities and birth defects as a result of exposure to Agent Orange are the most tragic...
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The #MeToo movement is making its way across the world. In Uganda, it means speaking out against a...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Christopher de Bellaigue
In 2002, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia, and the country has since become a reference for...
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Scientists in Ghana are getting out of their labs to change public perception about genetically...
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Since the 1970s, the people of Grassy Narrows in Ontario, Canada, have fought for access to clean...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Peter Andrey Smith
Pulitzer Center grantee Peter Andrey Smith went to Tasmania to see first-hand how farmers on the...
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Tasmania's Opioid Farms
Farmers in the Australian state of Tasmania raise a majority of the world’s legal pharmaceutical...
![A group of Grassy Narrows First Nation residents and their supporters stand below a "Justice for Grassy Narrows" banner. Members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation traveled to Toronto to demand justice. Image by Shelby Gilson. Canada, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-29-19/justice_for_grassy_narrows.jpg.webp?h=cca23211&itok=r60hbVcO "A group of Grassy Narrows First Nation residents and their supporters stand below a "Justice for Grassy Narrows" banner. Members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation traveled to Toronto to demand justice. Image by Shelby Gilson. Canada, 2019.")
