Health Journalism 2023 Conference News Briefs

Thursday, March 9 

Pesticides, people and the environment: Investigating the impacts in food production

Long-time listener, first-time freelancer: How to land audio gigs
Investigating local environmental health issues
Understanding and reporting on medical studies
The freelancer’s survival guide: How to thrive when reporting doesn’t pay the bills

Fight back: How to protect yourself against legal threats facing freelancers

Right to Know workshop: How to engage and protect whistleblowers
How to organize your research: Tips and tools
The writer-editor relationship: Smoothing the way from pitch to publication
Adding context on equity and access to health stories
Making your work accessible to people with disabilities
Welcome/keynote event with Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O'Connell
Friday, March 10

Localize it: Transforming 911 in St. Louis

Charting a future for local health journalism: Time for a new playbook?

Kids are dying: Exploring causes and prevention of child firearm deaths 

The biggest untold story in health care: 53 million family caregivers

Online abuse self-defense training, presented by PEN America
Contraception after Dobbs: More barriers, higher stakes

Why the U.S. can’t produce the doctors it needs:Challenges in medical education

How the pandemic changed vaccine research
Refocusing on patient safety
Why the U.S. can’t produce the doctors it needs: Challenges in medical education
Rise of the machines: How artificial intelligence could change health care delivery
Lunch talk: Dr. Jerome Adams, former surgeon general of the U.S.
How mRNA technology is changing approaches to diseases
Alzheimer’s update: What journalists can learn from latest research
Covering school-based mental and behavioral health: Lessons from the pandemic
Book talk: “American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics,” author Kevin Hazzard
Saturday, March 11
Covering climate change from the health angle

What reporters can learn from the growing use of hospital price data to push for lower costs

Long COVID and the future of medicine: How patients can change the world

Covering state bans on gender-affirming care for minors

How private equity investors are reshaping health care
Round table discussion, Malignant misinformation: The quest  for a “cure”
Sleuthing for stories about the opioid crisis
The weight debate: Making sense of the research and the ‘d’ word
Public health legislation in the new Congress
Half the planet: Big, underreported stories in women’s health
Sunday, March 12
The idea machine
Transforming that idea into a book proposal and landing a top agent

Holding hospitals accountable for quality