December 4-6, 2009
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships
| |
The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships brings together 20 print, broadcast and digital journalists for its California Health Journalism Fellowships. Highlights include: a behind-the-scenes look by
60 Minutes producer
Henry Schuster at the making of his Peabody award-winning documentary
Lifeline, which starkly portrays third world conditions for uninsured Americans by following
Remote Area Medical, an international medical relief agency that now operates in the U.S.; a primer on reporting on medical studies authoritatively, with
Erika Franklin Fowler, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan; an exploration of the medical, legal and emotional end-of-life issues all families face when caring for a dying loved one, with best-selling author and New York Times columnist
Jane Brody; and a powerful insider’s expose of the U.S. insurance industry’s effort to derail health reform with
Wendell Potter, a former senior health insurance industry executive. For more information, contact program manager Andrea Alday at 626-457-4296 or
kobrinsk@usc.edu.
Return to Calendar »