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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Cuban sanitariums are the government quarantine facilities for HIV positive people—critics called...
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This Masters-level lesson introduces journalism as an important tool for public health students and researchers to communicate complex public health issues in an accessible way for the general public.
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This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
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Lesson Plans
World Water Day
The following World Water Day lesson plan and classroom resources for humanities, science, social studies, media and English teachers ask students to investigate four Pulitzer Center reporting...
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Lesson Plans
How should money be spent to support global health? Evaluating how an author structures debate
What was the conflict in Dr. Tiwari’s clinic at the start of the film? Who funds the hospital in Nepal? What is effective altruism? What does it rely on? What is the DALY and what is its purpose? What...
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This Masters level lesson introduces journalism as an important tool for public health students and researchers to communicate complex public health issues in an accessible way for the general public.
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Resources to support student Letters to the Next President inspired and informed by global problems such as water access, climate change, forced migration and more.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Animal Crossings Save Wildlife and Humans
Animal bridge over Highway 101 may be Los Angeles lions' last chance of survival.
March 16, 2016 -
The following lesson explores the project "Pumped Dry," which covers the recent shortage of vanishing groundwater. It teaches skills of persuasion.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-15-16/animal_bridge_car_2.jpg.webp?h=7a926e85&itok=_mHpcIMu "The "animal bridge" on a highway near Missoula, Montana, is part of a larger network of wildlife crossings that have improved road safety in the region. Image by Robert Chaney. United States, 2015.")
