Past Workshop Highlights:
Telling compelling stories on health – taught by narrative writer and Pulitzer-Prize winner Tom Hallman, Jr., of The Oregonian.
Investigating the inside story at your local hospital – taught by Los Angeles Times reporter William Heisel, finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his quality report card of Orange County hospitals.
Teaching New Mothers to Nurture: Can It Be An Antidote to Poverty and Its Ill Effects Within Families? With Psychologist David Olds, whose creative approaches were recently featured in The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/02/06/060206fa_fact_boo).
Understanding sales pitches on new medical studies – taught by Ivan Oransky, MD, Deputy Editor of The Scientist.
Covering the junk food wars and the obesity epidemic.
A look at America's deteriorating health insurance system and why more Americans are exposed to financial ruin, medical calamity, or both – with Jonathan Cohn, New Republic staff writer and author of a forthcoming book on the subject.
Finding health stories in state politics: a California Health Care Primer on the Players, the Stakes, the Future – taught by Peter Harbage, a former California assistant secretary of health.
Testing your skill at covering health news with context and balance – an interactive exercise led by Robert Davis, an award-winning executive producer for CNN medical news.
Appreciating the life-and-death consequences of cultural misunderstandings and poor interpreting in medical settings.
Examining air pollution in Greater Los Angeles with researchers from USC’s landmark Children’s Health Study.
Covering domestic violence as a health issue, with Julie Sullivan, an award-winning journalist at The Oregonian and Billie Weiss, MPH, Associate Director of the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at UCLA