Career Development: Fellowships, Internships, Training & Grants

AHCJ International Health Study Fellowships

The AHCJ International Health Study Fellowships is a six-month program allowing veteran U.S.-based health care journalists to pursue a story or project comparing a facet of the U.S. health care system to that of another country. For 2020, the focus will be on developed European countries in comparison with the United States’ health care system.

Fellows pursue the projects with the support of their newsrooms or freelance outlets, which commit to publish or air the work. The project could evaluate a key component of the health care system, a health outcome, access, performance, providers, efficiency or other focal point.

Guidance is provided by AHCJ fellowship leaders through customized seminars, conference calls and email consultations. The fellowship covers the cost of traveling to the seminars and the international reporting sites, as well as lodging and meal and incidental expense stipends.

The fellowship program is supported by The Commonwealth Fund. 

See details about applying for the fellowship.

The application deadline is noon CT on Oct. 7, 2019.

Questions? Contact Susan Cunningham, susan@healthjournalism.org or 573-882-2203.

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2019 fellows

Read the press release. (Click names to see their projects.)

Arthur Allen, eHealth editor, Politico (@ArthurAllen202)

• Allen will compare the implementation of health IT in the United States with efforts in Denmark and the United Kingdom.

• Lost in translation: Epic goes to Denmark

• In the UK, health care is national and popular. Its health IT is a Balkanized mess

Karen Bouffard, health care reporter, The Detroit News (@kbouffardDN)

• Bouffard will study what the United States might learn from Norway’s approaches to the overlap of mental health and criminal justice.

Noam Levey, national health care reporter, Los Angeles Times (@NoamLevey)

• Levey will examine whether Germany’s fairly recent shift in how it handles prescription drug pricing holds any lessons for the United States.

• German patients get the latest drugs for just $11. Can such a model work in the U.S.?

Alex B. Smith, health reporter, KCUR-Kansas City/NPR (@AlexSmithKCUR)

• Smith will study whether efforts in the U.K. to combat social isolation might serve as examples for similar cities, towns and rural areas in the United States.

• Loneliness is killing you (series)

• Safety Net Cuts, Not Just Modern Life, Are Making People Lonely, Critics Say

• Young Urban People Are Lonelier Than Old Rural Folks, And Social Media Doesn’t Help

• The Friendly Midwest Is In A Loneliness Crisis And The British May Have The Solution

• Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden