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SUMMARY:SHERF Informational Session
DESCRIPTION:Interested in applying for the National Science-Health-Environment Reporting Fellowship? Join representatives from the Society of Environmental Journalists\, Association of Health Care Journalists\, and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing to learn about this opportunity to gain reporting skills at the intersection of science\, health and environment.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/sherf-informational-session/
CATEGORIES:Event,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240209T113000
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SUMMARY:Reframing Firearm Violence: How journalists can use research in their reporting
DESCRIPTION:Firearm violence is largely covered in the media as a crime issue focused on individual shooting events. But experts assert that reframing firearm violence as a broader public health issue is crucial to finding policy and community solutions aimed at preventing deaths and injury from guns.  \n\n\n\nJoin AHCJ and the National Press Club Journalism Institute at 11:30 a.m. ET on Friday\, Feb. 9\, for a conversation among experts and journalists on where to find the best data and research on firearm and gun deaths for your reporting. \n\n\n\nIn this 75-minute webinar\, we’ll explore the gaps\, go-to resources\, and facts and myths about firearms and firearm ownership. Participants will also learn: \n\n\n\n\nThe differences among firearm violence\, such as what is a mass casualty event versus a mass shooting.\n\n\n\nWhere to find new research on firearm violence.\n\n\n\nHow news coverage of firearm violence impacts victims and frontline health workers.\n\n\n\nHow to move thinking of firearm violence as “the crime beat” to more nuanced coverage across beats.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Beard\, M.D.\, is a trauma surgeon at Temple University in Philadelphia\, PA\, a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow\, and Director of Research for The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting. Her research examines the perspectives of firearm-injured people on media reports of their injuries and seeks to define\, measure\, and support minimization of harmful reporting on community firearm violence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbené Clayton is a reporter in the Guardian’s California office and is the lead reporter on the newspaper’s “Guns & Lies in America” series\, which launched in 2019 and focuses on the impacts of and solutions to community violence. She started covering gun violence in her hometown of Richmond\, California\, and is now based in Los Angeles where she covers the people who live where shootings and homicides happen most.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Mascia is a senior news writer and founding staffer at The Trace\, the only newsroom that exclusively covers gun violence\, which launched in 2015. She previously reported on gun violence for The New York Times\, where she began her career as a news assistant. She served as the lead writer for the Times’s annual Neediest Cases campaign\, which profiles New Yorkers in need\, and wrote and produced The Gun Report\, a daily tally of gun violence victims in America that ran for a year and a half after the Sandy Hook shooting. 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/reframing-firearm-violence-how-journalists-can-use-research-in-their-reporting/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240216T130000
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SUMMARY:Gun violence reporting certification: What it is and why journalists should get it
DESCRIPTION:The movement in journalism for less episodic and more thoughtful\, trauma-informed gun violence coverage is growing\, as are opportunities for journalists to learn how to get it right. \n\n\n\nA recent example is a certification workshop held by the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting. The day-long training\, called the “Gun Violence Prevention Reporter Certification Workshop\,” explored best practices for reporting on firearm violence and prevention. Participants included 25 journalists and 15 community-based gun violence prevention experts. \n\n\n\nThe central idea is that reporting on gun violence as a public health issue can provide a better understanding of why violence happens and how to prevent it. This type of reporting is also about minimizing the harm done by sensationalized\, episodic violence coverage. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, Jim MacMillan\, founder and director of The Initiative for Better Gun Violence Reporting\, and Alaina Bookman\, a violence prevention reporter for AL.com and a participant in the workshop\, talked about the main points of the workshop\, how certification aims to improve coverage of firearm violence prevention\, the benefits of offering a certification\, and what plans are in the works to offer the certification to more journalists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaitlin Washburn is AHCJ’s health beat leader for firearm violence and trauma and a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. She was a gun violence reporter for two years in Missouri for The Kansas City Star as a Report for America corps member. Previously\, Washburn was an agriculture reporter covering the omnipresent industry in California’s Central Valley for The Sun-Gazette\, also as a part of RFA. Previously\, Washburn had internships at the Morning Call in Pennsylvania\, the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington\, D.C. and The Oregonian in Portland. She spent three years as a researcher for Investigative Reporters and Editors\, based at The University of Missouri. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlaina Bookman was born and raised in Dallas and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She has experience working as a journalist for the Houston Defender and as an archivist at the University of Texas Black Diaspora Archives. Her role as a violence prevention reporter at AL.com is supported by Report for America\, a nonprofit that aids local newsrooms. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim MacMillan is the founder and director of the Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting and the assistant director of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting at Temple University. He has been a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute\, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and the Knight-Wallace Fellows\, as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and Swarthmore College. Previously\, MacMillan spent 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and photographed the war in Iraq for The Associated Press\, after which he and his team were awarded The Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/gun-violence-reporting-certification-what-it-is-and-why-journalists-should-get-it/
CATEGORIES:Firearm Violence,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Using the CDC's Environmental Justice and Social Vulnerability data in your reporting
DESCRIPTION:Environmental health is a deeply intersectional topic\, which opens up the possibility of using lots of different datasets in your reporting. In this webinar\, coordinators from the CDC’s Environmental Justice Index (EJI) and Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) will show you how to access and use data found in these portals. \n\n\n\nSocial vulnerability refers to the potential negative effects on communities caused by external stresses on human health. Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people\, regardless of race\, color\, national origin\, or income\, to develop\, implement\, and enforce environmental laws\, regulations\, and policies. These topics are deeply connected and when these indexes are used together\, they can help to include perspectives that have historically been marginalized. \n\n\n\nJoin us for this webinar to explore the data. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Gordon (he/him)\, AHCJ’s health beat leader for environmental health\, is a Chicago-based environmental journalist\, photographer and arborist. His work appears in The Nation\, Grist\, The New Lede\, Sierra Magazine\, Belt Magazine\, Civil Eats\, Clean Energy Wire and In These Times. Gordon graduated from DePaul university where he studied international relations and journalism. During summers in college\, he worked in conservation across the East Coast for US Fish and Wildlife and the National Park Service. After finishing school\, Gordon worked in conservation and field ecology for the National Audubon Society\, Forest Preserves of Cook County\, and Fermilab. After being awarded the Congress-Bundestag Exchange Fellowship\, he worked as a correspondent for Clean Energy Wire in Berlin and furthered his education in journalism at Freie Universität. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBen McKenzie\, M.S. (he/him)\, is a geospatial epidemiologist with the Geospatial Research\, Analysis\, and ServicesProgram (GRASP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ the Agency for Toxic Substance andDisease Registry. Since 2021\, he has served as the team lead for the Environmental Justice Index project in collaboration with the National Center for Environmental Health and the HHS Office of Environmental Justice. Mr. McKenzie is a committed advocate for the application of geospatial sciences to promote health and health equity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElizabeth Pembleton\, M.P.H. (she/her)\, received her Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Behavior from the University of Georgia\, and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in various public health areas throughout her career\, including nutrition and exercise\, healthcare associated infections\, foodborne illnesses\, HIV\, COVID-19\, and most recently\, Social Vulnerability and geospatial science. Elizabeth joined GRASP in July 2020 as the Senior Project Coordinator for COVID-related projects and has since moved to lead the Social Vulnerability Index beginning in early 2022.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/using-the-cdcs-environmental-justice-and-social-vulnerability-data-in-your-reporting/
CATEGORIES:Environmental Health,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T140000
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SUMMARY:Covering reproductive health: A closer look at issues affecting women of color
DESCRIPTION:The impact of abortion bans and the implications of challenges to the Affordable Care Act that aim to limit birth control coverage provide numerous opportunities for reporting. The same goes for stories about the effects of efforts to limit or outright ban the use of mifepristone\, a key drug that has been used in medication abortion for more than two decades. \n\n\n\nHowever\, proponents of reproductive health equity say that many journalists aren’t paying enough attention to — or are ignoring — how both current and possible restrictions will worsen the health of women of color of reproductive age\, particularly Black\, Hispanic and Indigenous women. As the implications of those restrictions become clearer\, those women — who collectively represent 36.5% women from the ages of 15 to 44 in the U.S. — may be even more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have unintended pregnancies or preterm births.Lupe M. Rodríguez\, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice\, and Lauren Sausser\, who writes about health care in the South as a member of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau\, will join AHCJ Health Equity Beat Leader Margarita Birnbaum for this webinar.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore why — by some reproductive health measures — Black\, Hispanic\, Native American and Alaska Native women tend to be in poorer health than non-Hispanic white women. We’ll also delve into the role that abortion disinformation and misinformation play in contributing to reproductive health care outcomes in women of color. And we’ll talk about misconceptions about attitudes that women of color have about birth control and abortion. You’ll learn about efforts that aim to give women of color more access to reproductive health care services and encourage them to advocate for themselves. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargarita Birnbaum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for health equity and an independent journalist based in Dallas. Over the years\, her stories about health\, as well as crime and other topics she covered early in her career\, have appeared in WebMD\, American Heart Association News\, The Dallas Morning News\, The Miami Herald and Reuters. Fluent in English and Spanish\, Birnbaum is also an interpreter and translator. Her personal and professional experiences living and working in the U.S. and in several Central American countries have informed her reporting work in covering health disparity trends among racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLupe M. Rodríguez is the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. Over the years\, she has worked as a social justice advocate in the U.S. and Mexico. A former vice president of public affairs at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte\, Rodríguez has an undergraduate degree in neurobiology from Harvard University. She serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Center for Clinical Research at Stanford and was chair of the Commission on the Status of Women in Santa Clara County and treasurer of the Board of Directors for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren Sausser writes about health care in the South as a member of KFF Health News’ Southern Bureau. She is based in Charleston\, South Carolina\, where she previously spent nine years covering health care at The Post and Courier. A graduate of Clemson University and Columbia University\, she has received awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists\, the Society of Professional Journalists\, and other groups. In 2016\, she was part of a team of reporters who were named finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. In 2017\, she was recognized as Reporter of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/covering-reproductive-health-a-closer-look-at-issues-affecting-women-of-color/
CATEGORIES:Health Equity,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T130000
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SUMMARY:Open wide: Covering the growing field of AI and dentistry
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence has been making its way into dentistry. New AI software products have emerged that could enhance dentists’ ability to detect tooth decay\, cavities or bone loss and propose treatments before dental health worsens. The FDA already has approved eight such AI products\, with more to come\, and some large corporate dental chains have already begun using them.In this webinar\, we’ll go over how these products work\, their benefits and limitations\, what’s on the horizon\, and how to cover this growing field. Roya Zandparsa\, a dentist who lectures at Tufts and Harvard universities\, and Casey Ross\, national technology correspondent for STAT\, will discuss how the products work and are being incorporated into dental care\, what we might expect in the future\, and how to report on this trend. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaren Blum is AHCJ’s health beat leader for health IT. She’s an independent health and science journalist based in the Baltimore area. She has written for publications such as the Baltimore Sun\, Pharmacy Practice News\, Clinical Oncology News\, Clinical Laboratory News\, Cancer Today\, CURE\, AARP.org\, General Surgery News and Infectious Disease Special Edition; covered numerous medical conferences for trade magazines and news services; and written many profiles and articles on medical and science research as well as trends in health care and health IT. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and chairs its Virtual Education Committee; and a member of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and its freelance committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoya Zandparsa\, D.D.S.\, M.Sc.\, D.M.D.\, F.I.C.D.\, is a clinical professor and biomaterials course director at the Department of Prosthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and a lecturer at the Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She also is vice president of innovation and development at Qualitas Dental Partners Organization\, the founder & CEO of Expert Dental Advisory\, the president-elect of the American Association of Women Dentists\, the past president of American Academy of Dental Science\, and a Fellow of the International College of Dentistry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCasey Ross is a national technology correspondent at STAT. His reporting examines the use of artificial intelligence in medicine and its underlying questions of safety\, fairness\, and privacy. Before joining STAT in 2016\, he wrote for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Boston Globe\, where he worked on the Spotlight Team in 2014 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/02/open-wide-covering-the-growing-field-of-ai-and-dentistry/
CATEGORIES:Health IT,Webinar
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