Deadline: February 14, 2025
Applications are open for the Harvard T.H. Chan Health Coverage Fellowship 2025. Hosted by the Center for Health Communication at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Health Coverage Fellowship is designed to help journalists like you do a better job covering critical public health issues. The fall program, which is entering its 24th year, brings thirteen journalists from across the country to Boston for an intensive nine days and nights of training.
Over the course of the fellowship, you’ll hear from dozens of health officials, practitioners, researchers, and patients on issues such as mental health, pandemics, breakthrough treatments, climate-related health impacts, healthcare disparities, women’s health, and aging. And you’ll get to watch first-hand how the system works, whether by walking the streets at night with doctors who treat unhoused people or visiting labs that make stem cells and vaccines.
You will leave the fellowship with a notebook full of story ideas, a year’s worth of mentoring by fellowship director Larry Tye, and a new community of likeminded journalists at local and national media outlets. The 2025 program will be held at the conference center outside of Boston from September 5-13.
Cost
- Attending comes at no cost to you or your newsroom, thanks to generous support from philanthropic supporters.
Eligibility
- Open to journalists—from print, broadcast, and online news outlets as well as freelancers.
- You must have your editor’s approval to apply.
- Selections will be based on the quality of your work and a sense that the fellowship can make a difference in your journalism career.
Application
To apply, fill out the form by February 14 at 11:59 pm Pacific time.
For more information, visit Health Coverage Fellowship.
