AHCJ announces 2023 CDC Health Journalism fellows

Eight journalists have been chosen to show up at the 2023 AHCJ-CDC Health and fitness Journalism Fellowship in Atlanta.

Many thanks to support from the NIHCM Foundation, this year’s fellows will commit 3 days — Might 21-24 — finding out from CDC industry experts and touring labs at the Facilities for Ailment Management and Prevention’s campuses.

AHCJ-CDC Fellows will:

• Discover about the most recent CDC research and details on subjects including maternal mortality, infectious conditions, persistent conditions, environmental well being and other rising general public health challenges.
• Understand how the company has changed its interior communications to be far more nimble and efficient in its community wellness messaging.
• Meet up with new sources they can arrive at for the duration of wellness emergencies — creating a stage of belief that lets them to offer much better facts to their audiences and communities.
• Understand how to tap the agency’s considerable resources to make far better stories.
• Tour the smoking cigarettes lab and the Emergency Operations Middle, amongst other web sites.
• Interact with colleagues from across the nation.

The fellowship system also incorporates a single calendar year of a new or renewed AHCJ membership.

The 2023 AHCJ-CDC fellows are:

• Angela Roberts, wellness reporter, The Baltimore Sunshine
• Bonnie Petrie, bioscience and medication reporter and host of Petrie Dish podcast, Texas Community Radio
• Kim Painter, impartial journalist
• Marijke Vroomen Durning, journalist, self-employed
• Allen Siegler, reporter, Mountain State Highlight
• Elaine Chen, cardiovascular illness reporter, STAT
• Joe Burns, independent journalist and AHCJ’s core subject matter chief on wellness reform/insurance policy
• Isabella Cueto, continual disease reporter, STAT 

In accordance to its mission statement: “CDC serves as the nationwide concentrate for developing and making use of ailment avoidance and control, environmental overall health, and health and fitness advertising and overall health schooling actions made to enhance the health of the people of the United States.”

The Association of Health and fitness Treatment Journalists has supplied a CDC fellowship for more than a decade, bringing scores of journalists to the agency for in-depth coaching and alternatives to build interactions with important resources of information and facts.