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June 7, 2019
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Content Strategy Editor, Kaiser Health News (KHN)
Locations: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Healthcare Correspondent, Forum Communications Company
Locations: Fargo, NC and Rochester, MN
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Writer and Editor, The Pratt Center
Locations: Los Altos, CA
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online/Print
Senior Healthcare Legal Editor, Practical Law US
Locations: Remote
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Health Editor, Live Science
Locations: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Digital Public Health Editor, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
Locations: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Associate Editor, HealthyWomen
Locations: New York, NY
Status: Part-time
Job Type: Online
Regulatory Reporter, Modern Healthcare
Locations: Washington, D.C.
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online
Features Health Writer, New York Post
Locations: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online/Print
Consumer Health Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Locations: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Online/Print
Health Editor, TIME
Location: New York, NY
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Print/Online
Location: Boston, MA
Status: Full-time
Job Type: Broadcast
Awards & Fellowships
Research Associate - Health Care Coverage and Access & Tracking Health System Performance Program, The Commonwealth Fund
About: The primary responsibility of the Research Associate is to carry out quantitative and qualitative research, data analysis, policy analysis, writing and editing to help the Health Care Coverage and Access & Tracking Health System Performance Program achieve its goals and deliverables. The Research Associate helps maintain the state data center and participates in writing and editing Fund publications including reports, issue briefs, blog posts, web-interactive tools, and journal articles based on the state data center and the Fund’s surveys. Responsibilities will include making presentations at public and professional meetings.
Contact Info: Please send a cover letter (including salary expectations), resume, and one writing sample with the subject line “Research Associate – [Your Name]” to Gabrielle Wuolo, Director of Human Resources and Operations, at gw@cmwf.org.
Reporting on Refugees and Migration Through the Eyes of Children, The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
About: This workshop, to be held September 19-22, 2019 at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is designed for local, regional and international reporters across diverse beats touching refugees, migration and children: education, public health, politics, policy, as well as particular refugee and borders crises.
Deadlines: June 7, 2019 at 5:00 pm EST
Understanding Vaccines and Health, National Press Foundation
About: Vaccines – and the consequences of the unvaccinated – are in the headlines. NPF is offering a three-day training to help journalists better understand the historical and current context of vaccinations. Topics to be covered will include public health issues, the manufacturing and approval process, how immunization recommendations are formed, opt-outs and exemptions, what’s in the pipeline, and more.
Deadlines: June 7, 2019