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
Announcing the 2009 Student Reporting Fellows!
Students at Campus Consortium member schools were eligible to apply for reporting fellowships of up...
June 1, 2009 -
Project
Guatemala: Forgotten Trauma
Samuel Loewenberg ventures to Guatemala to survey the underlying issues of the Central American...
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In Kosovo, Roma families and their children live in camps built on the biggest lead mine in Europe...
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Topic
Food Security
Food insecurity can result from climate change, urban development, population growth, and oil price...
March 20, 2009
![1](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/kosovo%20girl.jpg.webp?h=9b087389&itok=qJ11ALud "A Roma girl stands near her home in the Chesmin Lug camp. Between 2005 and 2008, Zoran Savich, a pediatrician with the Health Center of Kosovo Mitrovica, saw more than 300 patients in Osterrode and Chesmin Lug. In that time, 77 people died of lead poisoning, many of them children. "I treated as many as I could but they were living in the same conditions and absorbing lead," Dr. Savich said. "When the treatments stopped, their levels went back up. It was useless."")
