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Television as a Health Educator: A Case Study of Grey’s Anatomy In order to document how well viewers learn health information from entertainment television, the Foundation worked with writers at Grey’s Anatomy to embed a health message in an episode, and then surveyed viewers on the topic before and after the episode aired.
The Foundation and the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center’s Hollywood, Health & Society examined three seasons (2004-2006) of top-ten-rated prime time scripted shows to measure the prevalence of health content on entertainment shows and to categorize the type of health content on prime time television.
International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Russia/Ukraine Recent Project Events 2007 Kyiv, Ukraine, Training program – On the Frontline of an Epidemic: Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Mass Media, April 2007 (.pdf) Kyiv, Ukraine, Reporting on ARV- treatment in Mass Media, March 2007 (.
About the Project The Kaiser Family Foundation and Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS joined to create the .
About the Project While the Foundation has worked in Southern Africa for nearly 20 years, the bulk of the International Health Journalism Fellowship Project in Africa’s current focus is on the Kaiser/CNN Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa, which was launched in 2006.
A selection of articles from our fellows' work are represented below. Many of the articles are translated from their original language (Marathi or Hindi) into English for greater accessibility.
The following are a few of the events that the International Health Journalism Fellowship Project sponsored in India from 2004 - 2007.
About the Project International Health Journalism Fellowship Project in India was launched in 2005 at the Media Leaders’ Summit at the Prime Minister’s residence in New Delhi.
The Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health: Previous Fellows and Their Work Below is a complete list of fellowship classes from 2000 – 2009, the fellows’ jobs at the time of their selection to participate, and, where possible, links to work they produced over the course of their fellowship.
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