Support for the Association of Health Care Journalists Health Journalism 2016 and 2016 Regional Health Journalism Worksh

This project would support the annual conference of the Association of Health Care Journalists, Health Journalism 2016, as well as the 2016 Regional Health Journalism Workshop. The Health Journalism conference will host approximately 700 attendees from around the country for dozens of panels, workshops, and field trips to help educate journalists on a variety of key health care topics. The Fund support will assist with speaker travel, lodging, AV requirements, marketing, and general conference costs associated with the arrangement of this large-scale event. The Regional Health Journalism Workshop will take place in San Francisco in 2016. Past topics that have been covered include the business of health care, immigrant health, urban health, senior health, and health data. As stated above, with news organizations cutting their budgets, it is important to have a well-trained cadre of journalists who can speak to the topics of health care, especially as the system continues to change. Health care is complicated, and this conference and workshop reach journalists who often do not have ready access to training opportunities.