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Free 4-day program: Precision Medicine: Healthcare Tailored For You
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Precision medicine will revolutionize the old one-size-fits-all system. Also called individualized or personalized medicine, it allows physicians to use knowledge about an individual’s personal genetic makeup to determine the best plan for disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Program Dates: May 17 – 20
Program Location: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Application Deadline: 5:00 PM EDT, Monday, March 30
This four-day no-cost program on location at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., will educate journalists on the latest research, human genome mapping, government regulation, economic growth potential and privacy concerns. Twenty U.S.-based journalists will be awarded fellowships. Journalists from all media—web, print, radio & TV and photography—are eligible to apply. The fellowships will cover travel, lodging and most meals. Learn more here.
Funding for this program was provided by Mayo Clinic. Our guidelines for program sponsors are here.
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Deadline March 6: Thomas L. Stokes Awards for Best Energy Writing
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Each year, the National Press Foundation presents the Thomas L. Stokes Award to a journalist for the best writing on the subject of energy. The winner of the Award receives $1,000 and a citation. The subject may be any form of energy—oil, gas, coal, nuclear, water, solar, etc. Deadline to submit an application is March 6. Learn more here.
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NPF Annual Awards Dinner
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Our annual awards dinner was a rousing success, thanks in part to you. More than 950 Friends of NPF joined in a wonderful celebration of journalism. You can view some of the videos and photos from that evening here. Our digital manager, Reyna Levine, also produced this great video
that explains our mission in three succinct minutes. And take note: 2016 marks NPF’s 40th year of Making Good Journalists Better. We will have an extra special celebration at a date TBD. Stay tuned.
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Latest Research in Addiction
Drug or alcohol addiction affects nearly 23 million Americans and costs the United States an estimated $428 billion each year in health care and lost work days. Learn what new research has revealed about causes and treatment strategies for this health problem that affects people from every walk of life.
Speakers:
Dr. Stuart Gitlow
Executive Director, Annenberg Physician Training Program in Addictive Disease;
President, American Society of Addiction Medicine
Dr. Richard Saitz
Chair and Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health;
Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Video found here.
Funds for this webinar were provided by Bayer. Our guidelines for program sponsors are here.
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Disease Outbreak: Measles and Vaccines
Blogs, Videos, Audio and Slides from:
Anne Schuchat, M.D.
Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rear Admiral, United States Public Health Service
Ronald Waldman, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Global Health Milken Institute School of Public Health
The George Washington University
Julie Rovner, Kaiser Health News
Robin Toner Distinguished Fellow
Daniel Salmon, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Institute for Vaccine Safety
Associate Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Laura Helmuth
Science and Health Editor, Slate Magazine
Maggie Fox
Senior Health Writer, NBC News
Funds for this program were provided by Bayer. Our guidelines for program sponsors are here.
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NPF StudioWorks
NPF's state-of-the-art studio is fully functional with 3 Panasonic AW- HE120K Cameras, Autocue OCU- PSP12MWAGP Prompter, and Panasonic AV- HS410NJ Switcher. Contact studio@nationalpress.org to learn more or to rent our facility, which was built with generous funding from Evelyn Y. Davis.
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