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.
-
Pulitzer Center Update
Dirt Poor: Poverty and Water Sanitation
Too often, the people most affected by poor water sanitation are also those least able to address...
September 2, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: The Hidden Sorrow of Canada's First Nation
A dark chapter of Canada's history is brought to light in Daniella Zalcman's photographs.
August 31, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Photographer Documents Canada's 'Darkest Chapter'
Photographer Daniella Zalcman's haunting images capture one of the darkest chapters in Canada's...
August 31, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
American Photojournalist Captures Portraits of Canada's Residential School Survivors
Daniella Zalcman's photos are being featured on The New Yorker magazine's Instagram page.
August 31, 2015 -
Students analyze cholera mapping, identify community health concerns, and create plans for their own publicity campaigns informing community members of current community health concerns.
-
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.
-
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Amy Maxmen
Journalist Amy Maxmen traveled to Sierra Leone during the peak of the country's Ebola outbreak. She...
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-22-15/image1_4.jpg.webp?h=1f7c1d57&itok=IJ6ZYQQI "Sopida "Baimon" Siriwattananukoon is the winner of Miss Tiffany's Universe 2015. Image by Julia Boccagno. Thailand, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-31-15/tumblr_ntlwc3qpyz1rf8lnho1_540_1.jpg.webp?h=97c04a2e&itok=vx4OOmK7 "This is Mike Pinay, who attended the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School from 1953-1963. "It was the worst ten years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about relationships, how do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then, I was a number." "Do you remember your number?" "73." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-29-15/tumblr_ntlwc3qpyz1rf8lnho1_540.jpg.webp?h=97c04a2e&itok=1XVeZ6WW "This is Mike Pinay, who attended the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School from 1953-1963. "It was the worst ten years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about relationships, how do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then, I was a number." "Do you remember your number?" "73." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
