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
Pulitzer Center Participating in Washington University in St. Louis' Global Health Week
In the fall of 2014, Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications rescinded a...
February 26, 2018 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Medill's Washington Newsroom Screens Pat Nabong's Film on Impact of Duterte's Drug War
2017 Pulitzer Center student fellow alum Pat Nabong spoke at Northwestern Medill School of...
February 25, 2018 -
Lesson Plans
Reporting on Epidemics [15 minutes]
Students will explore how health topics are presented in the news media using behind the scenes videos from Carl Gierstorfer’s Ebola project and Jon Cohen’s HIV/AIDS project.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Melissa Noel
Award-winning independent multimedia journalist, Melissa Noel traveled to Jamaica to report on the...
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Students will learn about the concept of epidemiology and how it is used to control or prevent the spread of infectious diseases.