The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance is a yearlong program enabling midcareer journalists to pursue a significant reporting project examining health care systems.
The program, in its 15th year, is meant to help journalists understand and report on the performance of local health care markets and the U.S. health system as a whole. To learn more, visit the Association of Health Care Journalists website.
The 2025 program will support five projects:
- Anissa Durham, Word in Black: Medical mistrust, fear and misinformation run deep in Black and brown communities — but how does it impact organ donation and transplantation? With more Americans on the waiting list, what systems are hurting or helping patients dying for a transplant?
- Kelly Hooper, Politico: A probe of new treatments such as weight-loss drugs and cell and gene therapies offering hope to Medicaid patients with a range of diseases. But the treatments’ immense cost creates significant gaps in access to potentially life-saving care based on class, race and geography.
- Mohana Ravindranath, New York Times: Investigating emerging preventive screening — including full-body scans, AI-based risk predictions and direct-to-consumer lab tests — and their potential impacts on health costs and health equity.
- Heerea Rikhraj, New Mexico In Depth: Connecting the dots on how New Mexico’s hospital financing and systems impact the state’s growing maternity care crisis, which disproportionately impacts racialized and Indigenous women.
- Manasi Vaidya, GlobalData: Exploring the growing role of state Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) in deciding what drugs are covered by a U.S. state, with a focus on therapies for cystic fibrosis and other rare disorders.