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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The Office of Hope
In post-Chavez Venezuela, as an economic and political crisis threatens to plunge the country even...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Can a Dating App Erase HIV Stigma?
The July 2016 PBS NewsHour series “Ending AIDS” documents challenges of providing HIV testing to at...
August 8, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Pulitzer Center Showcases Reporting at 2016 International AIDS Conference
From discussing the role of journalism in ending the epidemic to focusing on women and HIV, Pulitzer...
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Students analyze how an author structures articles in different ways to report on malnutrition. The articles come from the project “1,000 Days: To save women, children and the world” by Roger Thurow.
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Europe's failure to provide adequate health care to tens of thousands of migrants trapped in Greece...
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Camila DeChalus directed and produced a video for her project about how, with help from the Catholic...
![Scene from the production of PBS NewsHour series "Ending AIDS."](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-05-16/2016-05-26_13.18.36.jpg.webp?h=7dcb60fd&itok=2eDzWesC "Scene from the production of William Brangham, Jason Kane, and Jon Cohen's recent PBS NewsHour series "Ending AIDS." Here, the grantees speak with outreach workers in a Harlem park known as a gay pickup site. Image courtesy of Jon Cohen. United States, 2016.")
![Theresa Kachindamoto.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-01-16/img_7257.jpg.webp?h=28c8296c&itok=Aed_OTfy ""Many men don’t like me," says Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto. "They say they hope I die, and I just reply, I will not die." Image by Amy Maxmen. South Africa, 2016.")
