Pia Christensen, AHCJ’s longtime website editor, died May 4, 2021, from cancer at her home in Loomis, Calif. Christensen, 50, served as managing editor/online services for the past 15 years and as part of the Missouri School of Journalism staff for the past 20 years.

“We’ve experienced a terrible loss in our AHCJ family,” said Senior Adviser Len Bruzzese, who hired Pia at Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2001 and then “stole her away” to AHCJ in 2006. “It’s a loss to an organization that needed her, to a membership that adored her, and especially to a staff who worked with her, laughed with her and shared so many daily ups and downs with her.” Continue reading →

About Pia Christensen

Pia Christensen (@AHCJ_Pia) is the managing editor/online services for AHCJ. She manages the content and development of healthjournalism.org, coordinates AHCJ's social media efforts and edits and manages production of association guides, programs and newsletters.

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The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded its first AHCJ International Health Study Fellowships to four journalists who intend to pursue significant projects in the first half of 2019. The program, supported by The Commonwealth Fund, is meant to help veteran U.S.-based journalists compare elements of the U.S. health system with those of other countries.

The program for mid-career journalists is intended to give print, broadcast and online reporters an opportunity to study how one element of the U.S. health care system is handled in another country and to report on the differences. Fellows will be able to interview patients, health care providers and policymakers both in the United States and abroad.

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