Public health focuses on the systematic prevention of disease and prolonging of life by governments, NGO’s and other groups. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Public Health” feature reporting on communicable and non-communicable diseases, the development of medical systems and infrastructure to provide public access to health care services. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on public health.
Even as labs contemplate reopening—if and when federal and local governments ease lockdown restrictions—the challenges will be enormous.
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina has expressed an interest in an unproven treatment.
From jungle stakeouts to burning drug dealers’ property, a group of mothers is willing to do whatever it takes to free their community from addiction.
Physicians are grappling with trying to carry out large, international trials in the midst of coronavirus lockdowns.
One of the first people to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in the United States hopes a legacy of her nightmare—the antibodies it left in her blood—will lead to a drug that can help others infected with the virus.
As the world’s attention was fixated on the horrors in Italy and New York City, the per capita death rates in counties in the impoverished southwest corner of Georgia climbed to among the worst in the country.
Relying on encouraging if scant data—and the reassuring knowledge that very few children get severely ill from COVID-19—some governments are beginning to reopen schools.
UC Berkeley photography student Clara Mokri captures Los Angeles life in the time of coronavirus through this series of black and white images.
China is facing pressure to open its doors to an independent, international investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus.
Thousands of desperate migrants are trapped in limbo and even at risk of death without food, water or shelter in scorching deserts and at sea.
Some streets of La Victoria have become camps for displaced people seeking to return to their regions. The drama of Covid-19 forced migration continues and escalates hourly.
The risk of meddling with the environment has been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought the world to its knees.
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