Global Health Inequities, Risks, and Solutions Grant

The Pulitzer Center invites applications for stories addressing global health inequities and challenges. Projects may explore barriers to healthcare, the impact of U.S. aid cuts, and emerging health threats. This opportunity is open to journalists worldwide, including freelancers and newsrooms, with a focus on diverse voices and perspectives. Funding is available for international travel and support to produce impactful global health stories, fostering collaboration among various media outlets.

The Pulitzer Center seeks applications for enterprise and underreported stories about global health inequities and challenges. We’re interested in ambitious projects about systemic barriers to all sorts of care, as well as promising research, treatment advances, or emerging health threats that merit investigation. Crucially, we’re also interested in how massive cuts in U.S. global health aid and other support are unfolding on the ground, globally, and in the U.S. How will health access and efforts to reduce disease and deaths be affected? What about preparation for future pandemics, health threats linked to climate change, war, or other events? This competitive opportunity is open to text, broadcast, and multimedia newsrooms and freelance journalists in the U.S. and worldwide. Freelancers should seek strong interest and ultimately a commitment to publish from a trusted outlet.
Global Grants Specifics
Reporting on global health and health science can be expensive, complex, and challenging for staff and freelance journalists. The Center provides a rare opportunity for journalists to apply for support to take on these stories. For example:
We have a specific opportunity for grants to fund international travel or extra help to produce global health stories for U.S. local, regional, and state-level outlets. Journalists might want to travel to a particular country because a story there has a local tie or is otherwise of strong interest to the outlet’s audience.Grants are also available for global health stories for national U.S. outlets, with extra consideration if a local, regional, or state outlet agrees to also publish stories. Grants are also available for journalists worldwide to pursue ambitious global health stories to be published in well-established, trustworthy outlets in any country.

Eligibility

Who is eligible to apply?This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world.Journalists from all countries and territories are eligible for grants.  We are open to proposals from freelance journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a project idea.We want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce journalism. We strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.

Ineligibility

What are examples of editorial products or project expenses that the Pulitzer Center grants DON’T cover? Books (We can support a story that might become part of a book, as long as the story is published independently in a media outlet.)Feature-length films (We do support short documentaries with ambitious distribution plans.)Staff salariesEquipment purchases (Equipment rentals are considered on a case-by-case basis.)An outlet’s general expenses (for example, rent, utilities, insurance)Seed money for startupsRoutine breaking news and coverageAdvocacy/marketing campaignsData projects aimed solely at academic research. Data should be developed to enhance/support journalism.