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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Several Vermont high school students traveled to Rwanda in December 2006 to meet with teenagers...
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Swagata Yadavar
Swagata Yadavar is an award-winning independent journalist based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. She writes on public policy, health care, and gender-related themes.
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Jamilah Lewis
Jamilah Lewis is a senior at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, majoring in journalism and double-minoring in political science and classics. Lewis is the sports editor of the Daily Egyptian...
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Decolonizing Care | Photoville 2024
“I wish I could turn the clock back to B.D., or “before drugs.” Before the opioid epidemic spread through our tribe like wildfire. Before my husband became addicted. Then two of my sons. Then my...
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Victoria Buchanan
Victoria Buchanan is a certified nurse midwife at Sentara Midwifery Specialists. Caring for women during pregnancy and birth is a cornerstone of her career as a nurse-midwife. She also provides...
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Camie Goldhammer
Camie Goldhammer has spent nearly 20 years serving urban Native families. She is a clinical social worker and a lactation consultant based in Seattle. Goldhammer is the founder and chair of the Native...
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Nichole Wardlaw
Nichole Wardlaw is a certified nurse midwife with over 16 years of experience in health education, full-scope midwifery services, and clinical faculty advisory. She lives in Hampton, Virginia.
February 16, 2024 -
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Karen Shakerdge
Karen Shakerdge is an audio journalist who specializes in reporting and editing investigative and serialized podcasts. Her five-part WNYC series Imminent Danger: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured...
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Melody Mpande
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 -
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Matthew Kavanagh
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...
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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...
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Chinele Josephine
Josephine Chinele is an award-winning international journalist. She has worked as a news, features, and investigative journalist for newspapers, radio, and television platforms in Malawi, Tanzania...
October 18, 2022