Winning Contest Entries
Explore a diverse array of entries that have participated in our contests over the years. These entries represent the incredible talent, creativity, and dedication of journalists and storytellers from various backgrounds and media platforms.
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Cancer Decisions Get Personal – When the Writer Becomes the Patient
When a health journalist (me) gets a controversial cancer diagnosis, she learns how complicated it is to parse out population-wide…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Pesticide use by farmers linked to high rates of depression, suicides
The story is about a farmer who committed suicide after years of handling pesticides and the increasing scientific evidence that…
- 2014
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The End of Night
This is a reported narrative essay about the health consequences of a world without darkness. The story fuses scientific findings…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Keeping Hope Alive for Single-Payer System
I spent a Saturday at a conference put on by the California Health Professional Student Alliance discussing their hope for…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Brave and afraid and heading down the longest road
This three-part narrative series, about a young man battling chronic mental illness, offered a close look at the failures of…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
How to Defuse the Population Bomb
Almost every big problem humanity is watching come down the pike is exacerbated by, connected to, or directly attributable to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Frontiers of Medical Technology
In this occasional series of radio stories, NPR Health Correspondent Rob Stein explores how new technology is changing medicine, and…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
This article discussed the effect of food insecurity (i.e., problems paying for food) on health. Nearly one in three U.S.…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The Ultra-Rare Erdheim-Chester Disease: Turning Grief into a Campaign for a Cure
“This is the story of how an individual with no medical background and limited funding channeled grief into action to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Children stuck in crisis
The number of children and teens who go to the emergency department in psychiatric crisis has been rising for years,…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Saving Babies Lives Before They’re Born…And After
“Robin Karr-Morse, Author of “The Ghosts From The Nursery” and “Scared Sick,” discusses the impact of pre-birth and birth trauma…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
The Risks of Home Birth
Women often avoid hospital births in fear of a medicalized birth experience, but are generally unaware of the very high…
- 2014
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
One of a Kind: What Do You Do If Your Child Has a Condition That Is New to Science?
The story followed a family whose five-year-old son was the first ever case of a rare genetic disease. The child…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Intelligent Life
If you go to the doctor or psychiatrist, they probably won’t ask you how much light you are getting. But…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Fighting to Leave
Fighting to Leave is a national exploration of how fence line pollution can be so severe, longstanding communities are pressing…
- 2013
No Award
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