Kaiser both provides health policy news and information – giving free and “virtual” access to health policy news to level the playing field for access to information – and assists working journalists to improve the coverage of health in the mainstream media.

Through kaisernetwork.org – our online health news and information service – we provide daily summaries of news and developments in health policy, HIV/AIDS, and women’s health, delivered by email and through syndicated headlines on websites around the world.  We also provide a weekly online report on racial and ethnic health disparities.  With our state-of-the art webcasting capabilities, we offer online video of hundreds of events and conferences each year, in addition to original broadcast programming produced from our studio in Washington, D.C. or live around the world.  For example, kaisernetwork.org is the exclusive webcaster of the International AIDS Conference.  Through kaisernetwork.org and our other specialized websites – StateHealthFacts.org, kaiserEDU.org, GlobalHealthFacts.org,  GlobalHealthReporting.org and health08.org – we are a synthesizer and broker of information, providing timely and easy access to health news and facts worldwide.

We also have a long-standing commitment to helping journalists keep policymakers and the public well informed.   Since 1993, when we began our principal fellowship program for journalists interested in U.S. health policy, hundreds of journalists have conducted in-depth reporting projects and participated in seminars, briefings, and site visits to gain extensive, firsthand knowledge about major health issues in the U.S. and internationally.  In addition to our fellowship program for established reporters and editors in the U.S., we also run a large internship program for young minority journalists interested in specializing in health reporting.  For journalists outside the U.S. reporting on HIV/AIDS, we organize briefings and frontline site visits, provide reporting materials, and sponsor travel/project awards for local journalists to do in-depth projects.