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How to update your AHCJ Freelance Directory profile

Association of Health Care Journalists

For example, health policy, public health, health disparities, news stories or pediatric health, parenting, magazine writing, investigations. Make sure your affiliation reads Independent Journalist. Scroll down to areas of expertise. List topic areas and/or writing styles youre most skilled in.

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AHCJ announces winners of 2023 health journalism contest

Association of Health Care Journalists

In the small division, Esther Landhuis nabbed first place with a story for Undark Magazine on a controversial diagnosis increasingly vaccepted among doctors. For the Health Policy category , Lev Facher for STAT won first place in the large division for their coverage on how the U.S.

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AHCJ announces winners of 2024 health journalism contest

Association of Health Care Journalists

In the small division, Esther Landhuis nabbed first place with a story for Undark Magazine on a controversial diagnosis increasingly vaccepted among doctors. For the Health Policy category , Lev Facher for STAT won first place in the large division for their coverage on how the U.S.

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‘No one can see you now’: What states are doing to boost primary care

Association of Health Care Journalists

For 10 years until last spring, she was a health reporter at the Boston Globe, where the crisis in primary care was among the topics she covered. Now working independently, she has published articles in the Boston Globe Magazine and Harvard Public Health Magazine, as well as teaching journalism at Emerson College.

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Between Hope and Grief: A Medical Memoir of Father, Son, and Family

The Health Care Blog

By GEORGE BEAUREGARD This piece is different from the typical health-care industry topics covered in this forum. My Sunday morning routine usually involves getting a cup of coffee and downloading the most recent editions of magazines on my iPad. Although overdue, a major news magazine had finally put it out there, front and center.

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Contemplating Health Data Rights as Civil Rights

The Health Care Blog

If experiencing denial of care or preserving personal autonomy about participating in health websites are not sufficiently compelling issues, let’s get to the tougher stuff. This incredible group will be meeting again at the National Health Policy Conference in Washington DC April 4th and 5th. So what comes next? Simmons and Ms.

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Remembering Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at HJ12 in Atlanta

Association of Health Care Journalists

Last year, Jeffrey Kluger reported for Time magazine that when the Carter Center started its work to eradicate Guinea worm in 1986, the parasitic disease infected 3.5 million people annually in 21 countries. In 2023, the CDC reported only 14 human cases of Guinea worm worldwide, representing a 99.99% reduction from the estimated 3.5