The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is sponsoring a fellowship for skilled journalists “who want to learn to mine data sources to reveal key insights essential to high-impact journalism.”  Fellows will learn how to acquire, clean, analyze and visualize data from leading data journalists and trainers. Applicants must propose an ambitious investigative or explanatory reporting project. After the training, each fellow will receive a $2,000 grant to support reporting and data acquisition costs. In addition, they will receive expert one-on-one mentoring for six months. This is an excellent opportunity for journalists who want to get started in data journalism.

The Alliance for Health Policy, in partnership with the Coalition to Stop Flu, is hosting a webinar to discuss flu season preparedness.

Journalists Harriet Constable and Jacob Kushner will discuss their six-part multimedia series for BBC, “Stopping the Next One,” which explores six diseases that could cause the next global pandemic and the scientists working to keep that from happening. Their stories cover a bat-borne virus in Asia, a super-spreader mosquito that has crossed from India to North America, African camels carrying Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), swine flu in Europe, monkeys with yellow fever in South America, and possums carrying flesh-eating bacteria in Australia.