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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Pulitzer Center Update
Elliott Woods' "Hope's Coffin" wins citation from The Overseas Press Club of America
The Overseas Press Club of America gave a citation to Elliott Woods' piece for the Virginia...
April 26, 2010 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Writer Kwame Dawes Discusses the Intersection of Poetry and Journalism
Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of over a dozen collections of verse...
April 22, 2010 -
In India the incidence of women dying while giving birth is among the highest in the world. How...
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An infant born in the state of Chiapas as three times as likely to die as the rate for Mexico as a...