2009 KAISER MINI-FELLOWS

Helen Branswell, medical reporter, The Canadian Press, Toronto, Canada
Project:  Polio eradication: Can the job be done?

Chris Cobb, staff writer, The Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Canada
Project: Innovative efforts to provide clean water and cheap sanitation facilities in Africa
"African Children Sing a Song of Thanks to Ottawans" (December 20, 2009 - The Ottawa Citizen)

Fruto Corre, independent filmmaker, Brooklyn, NY
Project: HIV, migration, and AIDS prevention initiatives in the Philippines

Jackedja Francois, independent television producer, New York, NY
Project:  Food security and HIV prevention and treatment in Haiti

Kenny Goldberg, health reporter, KPBS/FM Public Radio, San Diego, CA
Project: The impact of needle exchange programs in combating Hepatitis C
"Hepatitis C & IV Drug Users" (KPBS.org)
"Behind the Story:Hepatitis C and Needle Exchange" (KPBS Television)

Christopher Grosskurth, national reporter, CBC News, Toronto, Canada
Project: Tuberculosis in India and its implications for North America

Alison Hawkes, freelance writer and public radio reporter, New York, NY
Project: Uganda's use of DDT in malaria control efforts
"DDT Use Provokes Political Battle in Uganda" (August 7, 2009 - The World/PRI/WGBH)

Jeneen Interlandi, health and science reporter, Newsweek, New York, NY
Project: Battling the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis epidemic in Baku, Azerbaijan

Jori Lewis, freelance writer and radio producer, Brooklyn, NY
Project: Controlling childhood pneumonia mortality rates in The Gambia
"Western African Crackdown on Homosexuals" (July 3, 2009 - The World/PRI/WGBH)
"Senegal's Traditional Healers" (July 24, 2009 - The World/PRI/WGBH)

Tony Leys, health affairs writer, and Mary Chind, photographer, The Des Moines Register
Project: Post-conflict health crises in Uganda
"Hope to Heal" (The Des Moines Register)

Carol Lloyd, columnist, The San Francisco Chronicle magazine, Monteverde, Costa Rica
Project: The impact of Chagas disease in Latin America and implications for the U.S.

Allan Richards, associate dean, Florida International University School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and journalist, Miami, FL
Project: Innovative South African media initiatives on HIV/AIDS
"Tell Somebody: The New Face of HIV/AIDS" (October 15, 2009 - WPBT/Channel 2, Miami, FL)

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, global health correspondent, Globalpost.com, and freelance writer, Cambridge, MA
Project: Treatment protocols and the outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
"The Scourge of TB"  (January/February 2010 - The Atlantic Monthly)

Gregory Warner, freelance writer/producer, New York, NY
Project:  Comparing the effectiveness of male circumcision programs in Rwanda and Kenya

Gavin Yamey, M.D., senior editor, PLoS Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Project: Implementing low cost, low tech global health tools:  what are the barriers to scaling up? Focused on male circumcision, bed nets and antimicrobial drugs
"Malaria in Africa: The Net Gains of Keeping Mosquitoes at Bay"  (October 5, 2009 - Daily Telegraph, London)
"Time For a Third Wave of Malaria Activism to Tackle the Drug Stock Crisis" (November 24, 2009 - PLoS Medicine)