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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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Erika Check Hayden
In December 2014, Erika Check Hayden traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the Ebola epidemic. Here...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: How to Halt Rise in Traffic Fatalities?
Highway fatalities: On track to claim more lives tan HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis—combined.
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Project
Poland: Coal’s Deadly Toll
Poland gets 90 percent of its power and much of its heat by burning coal, one of the dirtiest of...
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Forced to choose between corrupt government clinics and faith healers, Sierra Leone's pregnant women...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Webby Nomination: Last Day to Vote for Interactive History on the Origins of HIV
Scientific detective timeline tracing the origins of HIV nominated for best science website.
April 9, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-12-15/poster_at_coal_lot.jpg.webp?h=ab5f34af&itok=WB1_BmgL ""Quality is our priority," says the banner at Grzegorz Rumin's coal lot. "100 percent Polish coal." However, experts say coal burned in Polish homes is often low quality and highly polluting. Image by Beth Gardiner. Poland, 2015.")
