Description
The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in public health, health care policy and the practice of medicine, including inequity in treatment, access to care, patient experience and health outcomes for Black people, Indigenous people and other people of color.
Grantees receive:
- A $2,000-$10,000 grant to help with reporting costs
- Five months of professional mentorship from a veteran journalist
- Monthly online development and brainstorming sessions with other reporters in their class
- Four webinars devoted to health equity in health systems
Journalists can play an important role in highlighting systemic and structural forces and how they impact individuals, families and communities. This Fund supports journalism that calls attention to chronic inequities in public health and health care systems and offers up paths for change. Reporters in this program conceive and report ambitious projects on how racial bias in health systems — whether structural or unconscious — creates health care inequities.
Interested in applying? If you would like to apply for our 2025 program, please fill out the contact form below and somebody from our Center will reach out to you.
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Jessica Washington knew she wanted to take a deeper look at Minnesota’s child welfare system, which disproportionately impacts Native children. She'd never taken on a major investigative project before, but a Center Fellowship gave her the skills and confidence she needed.