The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) is hosting a free health care briefing including a luncheon and a networking cocktail reception at historic Upper East Side mansion. 

Through the use of repatriated international royalties from its membership in the Authors Coalition of America, AHCJ is able to provide assistance this year to freelance journalists wishing to attend AHCJ’s annual conference.

Scholarships are open to freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

AHCJ, with the support of the California Health Care Foundation, provides financial assistance to journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time California print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

AHCJ, with the support of the Missouri Foundation for Health, provides financial assistance to journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time Missouri print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism. The student fellowships are open to full-time college or university students studying journalism or mass communication in Missouri.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

AHCJ, with support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, provides financial assistance to journalists who work at one of the nation's ethnic media outlets who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time journalists who work at one of the nation's ethnic media outlets – print, broadcast or online. Ethnic media is defined here as serving a predominantly minority or ethnic audience.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

AHCJ provides financial assistance to a limited number of journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time New York print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

Need financial assistance to attend the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

With support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, this fellowship is intended for reporters and editors working in rural towns and counties or who work for outlets serving a predominately rural population. (Generally, this includes counties with populations below 100,000.) 

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

Need financial assistance to attend the national conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

Thanks to Colorado Health Foundation's generous support, AHCJ will be able to provide professional journalists with some support to attend the conference.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

AHCJ, with support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, provides financial assistance to college journalism students and college journalism instructors who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to U.S.-based students majoring in journalism or mass communication with a special interest in covering health or health care. Professors and other college instructors who are teaching health-related journalism are also welcome to apply.

The deadline is Feb. 21 at noon CT.

The Marine Biological Laboratory Logan Science Journalism Program in Woods Hole, Mass., gives health and science journalists an opportunity to immerse themselves in hands-on biomedical research. Learn the science at the heart of your stories by doing it yourself!

Fellows spend intensive time in the laboratory with scientists, learning techniques and concepts fundamental to life sciences research today (including CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing). They also have time to discuss wide-ranging topics with scientists and other journalists, and explore Woods Hole and its environs.

AHCJ has teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – with the support of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust – for this national fellowship program for journalists. Up to 10 fellows will be chosen to spend a week studying public health issues at two CDC campuses.

The application deadline has passed.

The AHCJ Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance is a yearlong program allowing journalists to pursue a significant reporting project related to the U.S. health care system. It can be local or national in scope, or a little of both — say an aspect of the Affordable Care Act playing out in your community or subject specialty, or the impact of particular evidence-based treatments on health outcomes, or an analysis of a health care organization’s performance, using public data sets. Fellows pursue the projects with the support of their newsrooms or freelance outlets, which commit to publish or air the work.

The application deadline has passed.

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.

The application deadline has passed.

With the support of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, AHCJ will be presenting the National Cancer Reporting Fellowships with expertise from the National Cancer Institute and others. AHCJ will select 10-12 journalists to spend four days on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., to increase their understanding of and ability to report accurately on complex scientific findings, provide insight into the work of cancer researchers and to better localize cancer-related stories.

Sessions will arm fellows with the tools they need to read oncology studies, reviewing the hierarchy and quality of evidence. They will learn to make sense of guidelines and screening.

The deadline to apply has passed.

AHCJ has teamed up with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to present the AHCJ Fellowship on Comparative Effectiveness Research. A select group of fellows will be chosen to spend a week in Washington, D.C., learning how to write more accurate, in-depth stories on medical research and discovering how medical decisions are made.

Check back in the summer of 2020 for more information.

With the support of the Office on Women’s Health, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, AHCJ will be presenting the Journalism Fellowships on Women’s Health. AHCJ will select a small group of journalists to spend three days in Washington, D.C., to increase their understanding of and ability to report accurately on a range of women’s health issues.

Check back in the summer of 2020 for more information.

AHCJ has teamed up with the National Library of Medicine to present the AHCJ-NLM Fellowships. AHCJ will select four journalists to spend a week on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. Enhance your medical and scientific reporting through this specialized fellowship.

The deadline is April 13 at noon CT.

Need financial assistance to attend the national conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists?

Thanks to the Rhode Island Foundation's generous support, AHCJ will be able to provide professional journalists with some support to attend the conference.

The deadline is Feb. 21.

AHCJ, with support from the Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, provided financial assistance to journalists who cover beats other than health who wished to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Thanks to Kansas Health Foundation's generous support, AHCJ was be able to provide a few professional journalists with some support to attend past conferences.

The 2018-19 fellowship class will come from Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.

The aim of the program is to provide established journalists with the tools needed to improve the depth and amount of coverage focused on localizing critical health issues. The program is designed by journalists for journalists. Although the training is spread over a year's time, actual time away from the newsroom totals just a couple of weeks.

The application deadline has passed.

The 2017-18 fellowship class will come from Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.

The aim of the program is to provide established journalists with the tools needed to improve the depth and amount of coverage focused on localizing critical health issues. The program is designed by journalists for journalists.

The application deadline has passed.

AHCJ, with the support of the Northwest Health Foundation, provides financial assistance to a limited number of journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time Oregon print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.

AHCJ, with the support of the Healthcare Georgia Foundation, provides financial assistance to a limited number of journalists who wish to attend AHCJ's annual conference.

Fellowships are open to full-time Georgia print, broadcast and online journalists and part-timers or freelancers who derive the majority of their income from journalism.