Health Equity Media Fellowship

Medical Humanities & the Arts

The Stanford Health Equity Media Fellowship is a paid reporting opportunity that pairs early career media and health professionals to help fill a gap in solutions-driven reporting on health equity in the United States. Starting with an in-person fall bootcamp, fellows are introduced to a wide scope of health topics, while also taking a deep dive into cross-platform media production. Over the course of the year, fellows engage in mentorship opportunities while producing stories that deepen our understanding of health disparities — while also featuring the innovative searches for solutions that are targeting these issues head-on.

Stories

Attacks on Emergency Room Workers Prompt Debate Over Tougher Penalties, by Sejal Parekh

This reported piece combines narrative, expert interviews, and FOIA data analysis to discuss potential solutions for violence against California ER workers.

Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another - California Healthline, by Indira Khera

This piece was published by California Healthline and the San Fransisco Chronicle. It focuses on a peer leader in Solano County and explores how these leaders can help ease California's behavioral health workforce shortage.

Syphilis cases are rising in babies. Illinois has a potential solution, by Indira Khera

This episode was published by NPR's science podcast Short Wave. It takes the listener inside of Illinois' perinatal syphilis warmline, a phone line started last year clinicians can call for guidance on newborn syphilis.

The new RSV shot, a national shortage, and what that means for you, by Sejal Parekh

This “news you can use” piece was published in the Navajo Times, the main print paper distributed on Navajo Nation. The article describes current RSV shot shortages, and provides actionable steps for readers to obtain the immunization.