Slideshow: 2015 Global Health Reporting Awards Dinner

By: ICFJ | 12/07/2015

The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Johnson and Johnson honored six journalists from China, Russia, India, Senegal, Brazil and Cameroon at the 2015 Global Health Reporting Awards Dinner in New York City. The 2014 winners also attended the event.

ICFJ President Joyce Barnathan moderated a discussion titled, "Fighting Global Epidemics: What We Learned From the Ebola Crisis," featuring three panelists: Dr. Sheri Fink, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The New York Times who covered the Ebola epidemic in West Africa; Prue Clarke, Director of the International Reporting Program at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism who works closely with African media; and Tine De Marez, project leader for an Ebola vaccine clinical trial in Sierra Leone led by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

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