In 2007, the Kaiser Media Fellowships Program launched a new program for reporting on global health issues. The program awards mini-fellowships to print, radio, television, and online journalists (including freelancers) to research and report on global health issues, with a particular focus on issues related to HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria. The purpose is to encourage in-depth reporting on the health, social, economic, political and cultural implications of major public health issues and on the response to these challenges. Awards of up to $10,000 will be given to journalists to cover travel and research expenses relating to a specific project of their choice for publication, broadcast, or online posting.

This program is for journalists working for English-language news organizations with target audiences in North America and/or Europe. Priority will be given to projects otherwise unlikely to be undertaken or completed, focusing on issues that have not been reported or are under-reported, and which have a high likelihood of being published/aired/posted and of reaching a mass audience. Reporting projects can be local or international in scope, but should focus on public health concerns – or responses – that are of global relevance. 

Reporting should be undertaken and completed by December of the fellowship year, and will be posted on the Kaiser Family Foundation’s websites subject to copyright permission. Fellows are expected to negotiate such permission.

To learn more about this program and to see examples of reporting by former fellows, please use the menu bar to the right of the page.