Public Health
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Meet the Journalist: Ricardo Martínez
Peru is the world's second largest zinc, silver, and copper producer and accounts for a whopping 11...
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Lesson Plans
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides [Documentary Screening and Discussion]
Stephanie Sinclair's documentary short is an investigation of child marriage and a call to action. In this lesson, students view the film and discuss root causes of child marriage and solutions...
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10 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day, we've compiled our top ten lesson plans that feature reporting on how communities around the world are responding to diverse environmental issues.
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Surprising Solutions to Air Pollution in China
Students practice close text analysis and writing while exploring reporting from National Geographic on how China is responding to dangerous levels of air pollution.
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Outwitting Nature’s Greatest Killer
Students will use information from a multimedia story to examine and debate different strategies for combating mosquito-transmitted illnesses.
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Reporting on Epidemics [15 minutes]
Students will explore how health topics are presented in the news media using behind the scenes videos from Carl Gierstorfer’s Ebola project and Jon Cohen’s HIV/AIDS project.
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Students will learn about the concept of epidemiology and how it is used to control or prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
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Meet the Journalist: Alex Cocotas
Since gaining an outright parliamentary majority in October 2015, Poland's Law and Justice Party has...
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Meet the Journalist: Ana P. Santos
"A Woman's Crime and Punishment" is a multi-media report series that looks at how zina laws that...
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Students learn about health problems associated with solid fuel cooking, alternative cooking methods that would reduce the incidence of these problems, and the difficulties of implementing changes.
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In El Salvador abortion is illegal, violence against women common, and sex ed extremely limited. Did...
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic is at a tipping point in Russia, where an estimated 1-1.5 million people are...