Advocacy
AHCJ advocates for transparency and accuracy in health reporting, ensuring access to credible information and equipping journalists to assess the trustworthiness of health news.
Right to Know
The right to know: It’s a concept that underpins all journalism, and nowhere is it more important than in health care and medicine. Patients have a right to know what will keep them healthy and what will make them sick. The public have a right to know how effectively their government protects and serves those who depend on it. For health care journalists that means heavy responsibilities – and sometimes daunting challenges. Through its advocacy arm, the Right to Know Committee, it works to open doors to health and medical knowledge and serves as a resource for members having difficulty accessing information.
Latest Efforts
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Drugs remain on market despite fraudulent research; FDA withholds information
Despite concluding that a drug research lab’s violations “were so ‘egregious,’ and pervasive that studies conducted there between April 2005…
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Hospital inspection reports one key to writing about quality of care #ahcj13
By Kelsey Ryan For journalists wanting to learn more about how to track hospital quality through inspection reports, Charles Ornstein, a…
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Journalists call on USDA to release food stamp information
The Association of Health Care Journalists, along with six other journalism and open-government groups, has called on the U.S. Department…
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How to cover nursing homes with more depth and data #ahcj13
It was worth the wait to attend one of the last sessions on the last day of Health Journalism 2013.…
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