Topic
Public health
Diseases do not recognize borders. With this in mind, we report on access to medicine and healthcare as a global issue, with lessons to be learned from different corners of the world.
📰 8 features
🏆 3 awards and nominations
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Public Health / story & interactive
The Vaccine Problem
To better weather future pandemics, the way countries procure vaccines needs to change radically.
A feature story and quiz produced in partnership with The Walrus, with funding from the National Institute for Health Care Management.
Illustration by Marley Allen-Ash
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Public Health / series
Growing older
This series incorporates short documentaries, written features, and data visualizations to look at the wide-ranging impacts of an aging world.
Produced by students of the Global Reporting Program and published in partnership with The Globe and Mail.
Public Health / Story
1. South Korea
In South Korea, nearly half of women aged 66+ are living in poverty. Yeong-Im Jung is one of them, and collects recyclables to help meet basic needs.
Photo: Yejin Jo Public Health / Story
2. Canada
In a poll, 85% of Canadians said they’d do “everything they can” to age at home. Quita Longmore shares that sentiment — but it can be challenging in practice.
Photo: Arrthy Thayaparan Public Health / story
3. Finland
Finland has the highest prevalence of dementia in the OECD. Despite his diagnosis, Lasse Ainasoja says the country is “safe to grow old in.”
Photo: Sandra Korhonen Public Health / story
4. Sweden
As the world heats up, older people are at high risk. In Sweden, Lisa Högberg and the “Grand Panthers” are trying to hold the government to its net-zero goal.
Photo: Chiara Milford
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Public Health / series
Out of the shadows
There are a half billion people with mental illness around the world, but few ever get treatment. There are solutions. People trying to make a difference. This series is about those people.
Produced by students of the Global Reporting Program (formerly IRP); Winner of an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award and a Digital Publishing Award.
Public Health / Story
1. Praying for a cure
Chained and abandoned in West Africa.
Public Health / Story
2. Someone to listen
Treating mental illness in the slums.
Public Health / Story
3. Two million children
Helping Syria’ child refugees.
Public Health / Feature
Wiping Out Rh in Nigeria
Around the world children are dying of Rh disease. An illness, which decades ago was defeated in the West. Now, a Toronto doctor is helping to lead an international effort to save hundreds of thousands of babies. View the feature here.
Public Health / Documentary
Unseen enemy
In 2017, we released this documentary in partnership with CNN Films, explaining how experts say we’re “due” for a pandemic that will have a greater impact on humanity than anything else happening in the world. Less than three years later, COVID-19 hit. Watch the trailer here or learn more.
Public health / Feature story
Anatomy of a pandemic
GRC collaborators Dr. Kevin Patterson and Echo Xie look at the history of pandemics, and what we can learn to survive COVID-19.
Public Health / Video series
Millon dollar meds
Canadians pay more for their medications than any other developed country. This series explores the impact of rare diseases on families and the astronomical costs levied by pharmaceutical companies.
Public Health / Podcast
All the drugs that are fit to take
Private drug companies set their own prices, but the actual cost of drugs is often unknown—leaving governments in the dark when it comes to negotiating a deal to get sick people the medicines they need. Families are left frustrated, waiting to find out whether they can have access to the very medicines that could save their lives. This podcast was published in partnership with CBC Ideas.