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 (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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- Health Policy (large)
Hidden Errors
In this investigation, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Ellen Gabler found that laboratories across the nation are not following basic policies…
- 2015
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Risks Are High at Low-Volume Hospitals
A U.S. News analysis of Medicare data for a number of common procedures and conditions revealed that patients treated at…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
Injured Nurses
When you or a loved one checks into a hospital, maybe you get great care. But Injured Nurses reveals that…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Running on empty
In an unprecedented statewide analysis of hospital capacity, reporters found that facilities across Illinois were emptying out. In 2013, nearly…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
The drug rep will see you now
My investigation, “India’s ‘health camps’: the drug rep will see you now”, reveals for the first time how pharmaceutical companies…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
Living Lonely
The two-part series “Living Lonely” takes on the seldom-examined public health problem of loneliness. The first piece, “Solo in their…
- 2015
Third Place
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- Investigative (large)
A Matter of Dignity
Minnesota has always prided itself on providing generous, progressive care to people with disabilities and mental illnesses. Three decades ago,…
- 2015
First Place
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- Public Health (large)
A Game of Chicken
From 2004 through 2014, Oregon and Washington public health officials or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified nearly…
- 2015
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
The public health dilemma of a fading black community
The Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic was built in the 1960s in the heart of Seattle’s historically African American Central District.…
- 2015
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Match Madness
Match Madness is a half-hour documentary that follows the lives of three University of Georgia medical students in the time…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Recent Suicides Highlight Need to Address Depression in Medical Students and Residents
This story examined the problem of depression and suicide in medical trainees and steps medical schools are taking to lift…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Growing Community-Based Doctors
A recent Institute of Medicine report recommended that less physician training be done inside hospitals and told why more needs…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
How healthcare’s Washington lobbying machine gets the job done
Healthcare interests spent nearly $500 million last year to influence policy decisions in Washington. This story documented the healthcare lobbying…
- 2014
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Power Morcellation: A Hazardous Practice
The Cancer Letter’s coverage of the controversy over a commonly used gynecological procedure focused on three themes: 1) The devastation…
- 2014
No Award
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