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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- Health Policy (small)
The Looming Threat of Factory-farm Superbugs
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria from livestock pose a deadly risk to people. But the farm lobby won’t let scientists track the danger.…
- 2016
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
The Rumble & The Reversal
Activists in the impoverished communities around University of Chicago Medicine on the South Side pleaded for years for the affluent…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
The Uncounted
Cancer. Heart disease. Diabetes. Influenza. Automobile crashes. The U.S. does a good job tracking the top causes of death among…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
The End of AIDS?
As scientists and researchers were about to gather in South Africa for the International AIDS Conference last summer, the PBS…
- 2016
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
Shoot to Kill
With no dependable, uniform data on gun violence, it’s impossible to get even a simple tally of the number of…
- 2016
Third Place
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- Public Health (small)
For All They Know
Months after the spotlight of the national media had moved on from Flint, Mich., Undark writer Steve Friess moved in.…
- 2016
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
Heroin: Killer of a generation
Although the stunning increases in heroin-related deaths in Palm Beach County bore all the hallmarks of a public health emergency,…
- 2016
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Searching for a new liver; traveling for transplant
In this nine-minute radio feature listeners join a young stonemason from Boston as he copes with a failing liver and…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
Poverty’s Poison
Nationally, the steady decline in cases of childhood lead poisoning is considered a major public health success story. But a…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Business
Medicare Advantage Overcharges
Medicare Advantage is a fast growing alternative to traditional Medicare coverage run mostly by private insurance companies. These health plans…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (large)
Drug Problems: Dangerous Decision-Making at the FDA
The public depends on the FDA to ensure that medicines are safe and effective, but through many months and almost…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Maternal health: Ebola’s lasting legacy
As of March 2015, Ebola had infected more than 23,900 people, killing more than 40% of them. As fears escalated…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Public Health (small)
The missing generation
The story describes the ‘missing generation’ of people with autism: adults who grew up long before autism became part of…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Tiniest preemies, toughest decision
When children are born between 23 and 25 weeks of gestation, doctors leave it to the parents to decide when…
- 2015
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Growing a family tree: Finding lost relatives is getting easier with genetic testing & social media
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) DNA testing and social media are helping people find family, including sperm donor parents, biological parents who gave…
- 2015
Third Place
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