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Michelle Levander
Editor and Founding Director
My life has been enriched by work as a reporter, editor and, currently, as a journalism educator.
In 2004, I became founding director of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism. Before that I worked in daily journalism in California at the San Jose Mercury News and in Asia for the Asian Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine Asia. I also spent a year in Mexico, studying and later writing about immigrants and the tug North as an Inter American Press Association Fellow at El Colegio de Mexico and El Colegio de Michoacan. I'm a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and UC Berkeley.
To learn more about the initiatives I've launched and now manage at the Center, click here.
I welcome your feedback and ideas on the work we do. Please contact me at editor@centerforhealthjournalism.org.
Articles
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20 talented journalists were selected to participate in our 2023 National Fellowship to report on issues affecting child, youth and family health and well-being in the United States.
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The Center for Health Journalism website has a bold new site. Tell us what you think!
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We're thrilled to announce these talented journalists will participate in the Center's annual California Health Equity Fellowship, investigating health challenges across the state.
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Five journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory and investigative reporting projects about California’s health challenges.
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We're happy to announce this year's Data Fellows, a diverse group of ambitious journalists pursuing data-driven projects.
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Twenty-six talented journalists will investigate and explore challenges impacting child, youth and family health and well-being in the United States.
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For transparency, and the health and safety of low-income patients, we’re suing L.A. Care.
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This year's Fellowship class is a diverse and talented group of print, digital and radio journalists from all corners of the state.
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These eight California journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory or investigative reporting projects about California’s health challenges and opportunities for change.