Health and Climate Change Reporting Fellowship available [US]

Journalists based in the United States can apply for a reporting fellowship.

The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is offering its Health and Climate Change Reporting Fellowship. The program supports ambitious investigative or explanatory projects about health in the context of wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, extreme heat and other disastrous impacts of climate change.

Projects should focus on how climate change and health plays out in the U.S. in a dangerously warming world. The program encourages reporting that focuses on physical health, mental health or both, with an eye on the systemic inequities that worsen the impact of disasters and delay recovery.

Fellows will participate in two days of intensive training in Los Angeles, Nov. 13 to 14. They will also participate in monthly virtual meetings and receive five months of mentoring.

Selected fellows will receive reporting grants up to US$10,000 and a stipend up to US$1,000.

The deadline is Sept. 4.