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Meet the fellows
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Maea Lenei Buhre is a general assignment producer for PBS NewsHour. Buhre’s project explores the long-term environmental health and mental health impacts of the 2023 wildfires in Maui, with a focus on residents’ access to care. Watch here.
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Cassie Chew is an independent journalist. Chew’s project focuses on the coming adult autism services surge, using Illinois as a case study to examine gaps in services, disparities in access, and the human consequences of a system that largely stops at 21.
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Whitney Downard is a reporter for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Downard’s project covers Pennsylvania’s experimentation with a new type of medical provider — primary care medics — as the state’s response to known shortages in licensed medical providers.
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Olga Loginova is an independent environmental journalist and documentary filmmaker. Loginova’s project explores maternal and child healthcare and access to care among residents of Arizona colonias. Read the article in English here and in Spanish here.
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Mark Rabago is a correspondent for the Marianas Press. Rabago’s reporting dives into the rates of cancer cases and access to healthcare in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory. Read the first article in the series here.
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Jayati Ramakrishnan is a reporter for The Seattle Times. Ramakrishnan will report on mental health-related wraparound services with a solutions-focused approach that ties in to the overarching need for systems of care. Read the article here.
Each journalist will share practical tips, tools, and resources that you can apply to your own reporting, along with insights from their fellowship projects and the challenges they encountered along the way.
Participants will learn
- Apply reporting strategies and lessons from journalists covering a range of public health issues;
- Discover new tools, sources, and resources to strengthen public health reporting; and
- Gain practical insights for navigating complexity, building trust, and telling impactful health stories.
This program is part of the NPCJI’s monthly webinar series produced as part of the Public Health Reporting Fellowship. In partnership with the Common Health Coalition, the fellowship offers training and financial support for mid-career journalists to complete reporting projects focused on the intersection of public health policy and health care delivery.
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