‘Step by Step’ wins AHCJ award (Copy)

Elina Makopo, left, and her 12-month-old daughter, Jane, visit with community health worker Elizabeth Kafumo at the Kamupundu Primary Health Care Unit in Lufwanyama, Zambia. Kamupundu Primary Health Care Unit in Lufwanyama, Zambia.

Our Special Reports team that produced ‘Step by Step: The Path to Ending Child Mortality‘ has won the Association of Health Care Journalists’ First Place Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism in the category of ‘Public Health’ (for a ‘Large’ audience).

It is a prestigious prize for health reporting and the award to be given at a three-day conference at the end of March in Denver where many colleagues, thought leaders and policy makers in global health will have a chance to see the important, compelling project our team produced. Among the 18-person team that worked tirelessly on this reporting effort were three GroundTruth fellows and one former GroundTruth fellow.