Our Programs
With the ongoing changes in the news media and the launch of the Foundation's new non-profit news service, Kaiser Health News, the Foundation is redesigning its journalism training and education programs. Any questions about the programs should be addressed to Penny Duckham, the Executive Director of the Fellowships Program.
- The
Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health — for
mid-career journalists in the U.S., provides in-depth briefings and site
visits focused on complex health policy issues. For details of the 1993-2009 Media Fellows
and their projects, and links to some of the reporting completed under
the program, click
here.
- The Kaiser Media Internships in Health Reporting — for young U.S. journalists interested in specializing in health reporting, provides an intensive introduction and practical experience reporting on health issues based at newsrooms across the U.S. Click here to see a list of the 2011 Host News Organizations, and the journalists selected for the 16 internships.
- Kaiser projects on Global Health Reporting — Starting in 2010, the Kaiser Foundation has launched new projects focused on U.S. global health policy reporting and coverage by U.S. news organizations.
- Taking the Temperature: The Future of Global Health Journalism, a review of U.S. global health coverage, including the constraints, shifts in coverage, and potential reporting opportunities for U.S. journalists and news organizations, was published in February 2011. The report is based on interviews with 50 senior U.S. editors, reporters and others engaged in global health coverage. A summary note of a follow-up discussion is also available.
- Kaiser/GlobalPost Partnership and Global Health Reporting Fellowships: In 2011, the Foundation began a new partnership with GlobalPost to help support original reporting on global health policy issues. As part of the partnership, the Foundation will work with GlobalPost to support its coverage of global health, including reporting on U.S. global health policy issues, and will sponsor the work of three Kaiser/GlobalPost Global Health Reporting Fellows. The Fellows will complete paid internships in the U.S. and abroad starting in Spring 2011. These fellows will be chosen by GlobalPost and the Foundation from students and/or recent graduates of the Columbia Journalism School.
- Robin Toner Distinguished Fellowship in Journalism — based with the Foundation's Kaiser Health News, allows the recipient to pursue in-depth reporting projects on health policy and politics. The Fellowship honors the late Robin Toner, a long-time New York Times reporter whose reporting often framed debate about health policy and politics. Through an internal selection process, veteran award-winning journalist Marilyn Werber Serafini, a former health care and welfare reporter at the National Journal, was chosen as the first recipient and started her fellowship in September 2010.
