Covering Global Health, UW, May 2-3

Register now for Covering Global Health, a conference connecting journalists with experts on news, trends, and controversies in the fast-changing field of global health

Seattle, home to the Gates Foundation, several other international health organizations and the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, has become a world center for global health research and philanthropy. Speakers will include some of the area's top scientists, medical experts and policy-makers, as well as aid workers and journalists with on-the-ground experience.

Covering Global Health is for writers, producers, editors, photojournalists and film-makers. Local journalists have worked with the UW Departments of Communication and Global Health to create a program that will interest anyone covering health and medicine, business, politics, general assignment, features or the environment.

Panels will tackle such topics as emerging health care risks, the perils and promises of partnerships between drug companies and aid groups, climate change and disease, and how health crises around the globe affect us locally. Practical matters-such as the challenges of reporting overseas, selling these stories to editors and local audiences, finding global health stories here at home, and doing watchdog research on global health foundations and aid groups-also will be addressed.

A "speed dating" reception with regional global health and non-profit organizations will highlight locally based story ideas and contacts.

The conference will be held at the University of Washington South Campus Center. The cost is $35. For more information, go to the website (https://www.com.washington.edu/cgh/) or download this registration form. Space is limited, so act soon.

Covering Global Health is sponsored by the UW Department of Communication and the UW Department of Global Health, the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, UW Center for Global Studies and the Washington Global Health Alliance. SPJ, along with the Seattle Times, Seattle P-I and other journalism organizations, is a cooperating sponsor.

This program is sponsored, in part, by the Western Washington Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.