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
This Week: Portraits of Trauma
Can the wounds of cultural genocide be healed?
February 23, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Dan Zak
"So we (the U.S.) tested 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958. If you take the...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Grantee Sonia Shah Publishes Her Fourth Book, 'Pandemic'
New book on infectious diseases considers which one may be the next pandemic.
February 19, 2016 -
Lesson Plans
Roads Kill: The Dangers of Motorcycles
In the following lesson, students will analyze several resources about the dangers of motorcycles, and by the end, they will write a summary about the dangers of motorcycles.
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Lesson Plans
How Countries Deal with HIV/AIDS
This lesson looks at different countries and their responses to the AIDS epidemic.
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Students conduct an analysis of Amy Maxmen's Newsweek article, examine how she educates and engages the audience, and explore the differences between this type of writing and academic writing.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/02-22-16/shah_book.jpg.webp?h=7a926e85&itok=dhDFAjoT "Grantee Sonia Shah's latest book, "Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and Beyond," is to be released on February 23, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/02-22-16/screen_shot_2016-02-22_at_12.45.38_pm.jpg.webp?h=5db6fa77&itok=AdYAK76t "Images from Sonia Shah's 2016 book "Pandemic" and Carl Gierstorfer's 2015 documentary "We Want You to Live."")
