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Two Online Efforts Expand Reporters' Resources for Covering Public Health Issues
Communications and advocacy tool kit and story bank for public health issues
In 2004–05, Christopher Conte, a writer for Governing magazine, wrote five magazine-length articles about key challenges facing state and local public health departments in diverse areas. In March 2006, the Trust for America's Health launched an online media center designed to educate reporters about public health issues.
Key Results
- Conte wrote a series of five articles profiling five different public health programs run by health departments from diverse geographic areas and levels of government and facing different issues. The series, entitled Profiles in Public Health, is posted on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Web site.
- The Trust for America's Health established an online media resource center on public health issues.
Funding
RWJF supported the creation of the articles and the Web site through two solicited grants: a $33,564 grant to Conte (September 1, 2004–February 28, 2005), and a $100,000 grant to the Trust for America's Health (December 1, 2004–February 28, 2006).
RWJF originally expected Conte's articles to appear on the Web site Trust for America's Health was creating, but a change in the focus of that site precluded that, and RWJF posted the articles on its own site instead.