Journalism Grants
NIHCM Foundation supports health reporting and education projects that inform public and policymaker awareness about health issues in ways that improve health and health care.
Grants provide funding for:
- Health reporting
- Educational opportunities for health care journalists
- Visual storytelling
- Support for documentary films and their public engagement campaigns
Application Information
The 2024 - 2025 cycle of the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Journalism Grant program has closed. Grantees will be notified in early 2025. Please contact Sheree Crute at scrute[at]nihcm.org with any questions.
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Journalism Grants
January 08, 2024 - January 08, 2025
Holding Moses: A Documentary on Disability and Caregiving
Frankly Speaking Films
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
MedPage Today
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Investigating Practices in Crisis Mental Health Care
Eli Cahan - Freelance
Journalism Grants
October 10, 2023 - October 10, 2024
Disparities in Mental Health Care & Suicide Prevention
Cheryl Platzman Weinstock - Freelance
Journalism Grants
October 10, 2023 - April 17, 2024
Cost Barriers to the Sickle Cell Cure
Outlier Media
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Value-Based Care and Health Equity
Health Affairs
Journalism Grants
January 08, 2024 - March 31, 2024
Private Equity’s Takeover of American Health Care
Vox
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2023 - August 01, 2024
Prescription Drug Pricing
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
January 02, 2024 - December 31, 2024
Improving Data Practices to Improve Health Outcomes
Harvard Public Health Magazine
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2024 - July 31, 2024
Health Coverage Bootcamp Series
Association of Health Care Journalists's Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism and Investigative Reporters and Editors
Journalism Grants
January 02, 2024 - July 31, 2024
Misplacement of Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses in Nursing Homes
American Public Media Research Lab
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024
The Drivers of Health Care Costs, Their Impacts & Solutions
The Conversation
Journalism Grants
January 03, 2023 - November 30, 2024
Beat Academy: Helping Journalists Cover Health Care 2024
Poynter Institute for Media Studies with KFF
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2024
Pharmanipulation: Battling Drug Industry Influence
PharmedOut, Georgetown University Medical Center
Journalism Grants
November 15, 2022 - November 14, 2023
Highlighting Solutions to the Mental Health Crisis
MindSite News
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024
Enhancing Health Reporting
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - October 14, 2024
Health Issues in Communities of Color
Power News Radio Network
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2025
Journalists in Aging Fellows Program
The Gerontological Society of America
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - November 30, 2024
Generic Drugs at a Crossroads
Tradeoffs
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2024
Translating Research Impacting the Health Care Marketplace
The Journalist's Resource, a project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
September 01, 2022 - August 31, 2023
Improving Reporting on Mental Health
The Carter Center
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023
AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellowships
Association of Health Care Journalists's Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2024
Pharmanipulation: Battling Drug Industry Influence
PharmedOut, Georgetown University Medical Center
Journalism Grants
November 15, 2022 - November 14, 2023
Highlighting Solutions to the Mental Health Crisis
MindSite News
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2022 - October 31, 2023
Disparities in Maternal Mortality
PBS NewsHour
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - June 01, 2023
Communication & Public Health: History and the Path Forward
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - June 01, 2023
Communication & Public Health: History and the Path Forward
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
February 01, 2023 - December 15, 2023
The Impact of Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses on Health & Health Systems
Erika Fry, Fortune
Journalism Grants
January 03, 2023 - November 30, 2024
Beat Academy: Helping Journalists Cover Health Care 2024
Poynter Institute for Media Studies with KFF
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Why psychiatry is failing so many people — and what can be done about it
STAT
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024
The Drivers of Health Care Costs, Their Impacts & Solutions
The Conversation
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - September 01, 2023
Health information in Spanish Targeting Latinos
Factchequeado
Journalism Grants
March 01, 2023 - May 01, 2024
Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis
Debra Gonsher Vinik, producer, writer and director
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2022 - April 01, 2023
Implications of Private Equity Investment in Physician Groups
Clayton Dalton
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023
How Cancer Screening Guidelines Increase Disparities
Melba Newsome
Journalism Grants
July 01, 2023 - June 30, 2024
The Safe Water Shortage and Health
Science News
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Health Reporting
Science Friday
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - December 31, 2023
Closing the Health Gap in Indian Country
Indian Country Media, LLC
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - October 14, 2024
Health Issues in Communities of Color
Power News Radio Network
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Rural America’s Hidden Inequities
Institute for Nonprofit News
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024
Enhancing Health Reporting
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2025
Journalists in Aging Fellows Program
The Gerontological Society of America
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - November 30, 2024
Generic Drugs at a Crossroads
Tradeoffs
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2024
Translating Research Impacting the Health Care Marketplace
The Journalist's Resource, a project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024
Enhancing Health Reporting
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - October 14, 2024
Health Issues in Communities of Color
Power News Radio Network
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
The Costs - and Post-Pandemic Future - of Medicine’s Gender Gap
Fortune Media
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Better Medical News: Improving the Content, Interpretation and Use of Press Releases
The Dartmouth Institute
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
The Aging Surge
Peggy Pico
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Climate Change and Health
Science Friday
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Transgender Health Care
Connecticut Health Investigative Team
Journalism Grants
September 01, 2021 - August 31, 2022
Preventing Future Pandemics
Science
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - December 31, 2023
Closing the Health Gap in Indian Country
Indian Country Media, LLC
Journalism Grants
February 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
What You Really Need to Know About Drug Development
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
Poor Mental Health: A Growing Crisis
PBS Newshour
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
CURED
Story Center Films
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
A Turning Point in the Addiction Crisis
STAT
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2020 - December 31, 2021
#IamVanessaGuillen: Military Sexual Trauma (MST)
Univision News Digital
Journalism Grants
September 01, 2021 - September 30, 2022
Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Wake of the Pandemic
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Journalism Grants
August 01, 2021 - July 31, 2022
Examining Racial and Income Health Disparities in Michigan
Bridge Michigan
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2021 - November 30, 2022
Elevating Diverse Health Scholars in Journalism
The Conversation
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022
When Health Freedom Leads to Harm
Lindsay Gellman
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - June 30, 2025
Journalists in Aging Fellows Program
The Gerontological Society of America
Journalism Grants
December 01, 2021 - December 31, 2022
Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air
Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Rural America’s Hidden Inequities
Institute for Nonprofit News
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - November 30, 2024
Generic Drugs at a Crossroads
Tradeoffs
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2024
Translating Research Impacting the Health Care Marketplace
The Journalist's Resource, a project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
February 03, 2021 - December 31, 2021
DO NO HARM
Symon Productions
Journalism Grants
November 23, 2020 - December 31, 2021
The 2021 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 04, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Health After the Pandemic
PBS NewsHour
Journalism Grants
November 13, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Vaccines: History, function, backlash, and the new coronavirus
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
December 02, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Tracking Coronavirus Test Accuracy
STAT
Journalism Grants
October 05, 2020 - December 31, 2021
The Value of Nurses
Theresa Brown
Journalism Grants
December 09, 2020 - March 30, 2022
America Unprotected: The Medical Supply Crisis
Global Reporting Centre
Journalism Grants
October 05, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Hospital Mergers' Effects on Health Care Costs, Access
Connecticut Health I-Team
Journalism Grants
December 17, 2020 - June 30, 2022
COVID-19 Collateral Damage
Vox
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2022 - November 30, 2024
Generic Drugs at a Crossroads
Tradeoffs
Journalism Grants
November 13, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Delivery and Health Care Systems in Michigan
Bridge Michigan
Journalism Grants
December 12, 2020 - December 31, 2021
COVID's Disproportionate Effect on Women's Health
The Fuller Project
Journalism Grants
December 02, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Pandemic Generation
WBUR
Journalism Grants
November 12, 2020 - December 31, 2021
Tackling misinformation by filling Spanish-language health information vacuums
The Texas Tribune
Journalism Grants
November 12, 2020 - April 30, 2022
Covid Deaths Left Orphans. The Stress of That Loss May Carry With It Lifelong Risk
Retro Report
Journalism Grants
November 13, 2020 - February 28, 2022
The Toll of Living in Pandemic America
Fortune Media
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2024
Translating Research Impacting the Health Care Marketplace
The Journalist's Resource, a project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
April 15, 2015 - April 14, 2016
The 2015 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2015 - December 31, 2015
The Homestretch Documentary
Kartemquin Educational Films
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2015 - December 31, 2015
2015 NABJ Conference on Health, Health Policy and Health Inequities
National Association of Black Journalists
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2014 - October 31, 2015
The Raising of America Documentary Series
Resolution, Inc. dba California Newsreel
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2015
Health Care Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
ProPublica
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2015 - December 31, 2015
Investigative Reporting in Health Care
Center for Public Integrity
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2014 - October 31, 2016
Public Health & Safety Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
October 31, 2015 - October 31, 2016
"Worked Over"
The Center for Investigative Reporting
Journalism Grants
April 15, 2016 - April 14, 2017
The 2016 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Investigative Reporting on Health Care
Washington Monthly
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2016 - December 31, 2016
Ethics, Oversight and Patient Impact in the Age of Personalized Medicine
The Eye from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2015 - October 31, 2016
Everything You Want to Know About Opioids
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2015 - October 31, 2016
Supplements and Safety
FRONTLINE
Journalism Grants
October 21, 2015 - October 20, 2016
Public Education via Evidence-based Podcasts
HealthNewsReview.org
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - October 31, 2017
Public Health & Safety
Healthcare Triage
Journalism Grants
April 14, 2017 - April 13, 2018
The 2017 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 31, 2016 - July 31, 2017
Essentials of Health Policy: A Sourcebook for Journalists and Policymakers
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 30, 2016 - August 30, 2017
Nightmare Bacteria and the Crisis in Antibiotics
Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
April 14, 2018 - April 13, 2019
The 2018 Health Care Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 31, 2017 - December 30, 2018
“Almost Sunrise” Documentary
Thoughtful Robot Productions
Journalism Grants
December 31, 2017 - December 30, 2018
“To Err Is Human” Documentary
3759 Films LLC
Journalism Grants
December 31, 2017 - December 30, 2018
Gender Identity and Mental Health: What’s the Cost?
American Society of Journalists and Authors
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
“No Small Matter” Documentary
Kindling Group/Siskel/Jacobs Productions
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
“Unseen Enemy” Documentary
Ikana Media LLC
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
"APART" Documentary
Jennifer Redfearn & Tim Metzger, Red Antelope Films
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
"Broken Places" Documentary
Public Policy Productions/WNET
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Deaths of Despair
The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Autoimmune Drugs and Rising Adverse Events
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MedPage Today & USA Today Network
Journalism Grants
January 01, 2019 - June 30, 2019
Investigating How the U.S. Is Preparing for the Next Pandemic
PBS NewsHour
Journalism Grants
April 15, 2019 - April 14, 2020
The 2019 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
December 02, 2019 - June 30, 2021
Breaking the Silence: Innovative Approaches to Suicide Prevention
The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Journalism Grants
November 10, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma
PBS NewsHour
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2024
Translating Research Impacting the Health Care Marketplace
The Journalist's Resource, a project of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Journalism Grants
October 24, 2019 - April 30, 2021
The 2020 Health Coverage Fellowship
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023
Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues
Alliance for Health Policy
Journalism Grants
November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024
Health Matters Webinar Series
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital
Journalism Grants
November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Aging in America
The Conversation
Journalism Grants
November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2022
Ticking Time Bombs: Reevaluating How We Think About Breast Cancer
Michelle Andrews
Journalism Grants
November 06, 2019 - June 30, 2021
"Sick" Podcast Season Two
Side Effects Public Media
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - January 27, 2020
Generation Lonely: 10,000 Followers and No Friends
National Public Radio/Dawn Fallik
Journalism Grants
December 02, 2019 - December 31, 2020
An Investigation of Chronic Kidney Disease and Treatment Disparities in the U.S.
Undark Magazine
Journalism Grants
November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020
Health Care and the 2020 Elections
STAT
Journalism Grants
November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2021
Exploring the Consumer Impact of Consolidation
The Columbus Dispatch
Journalism Grants
November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020
The Opioid Crisis: Why We’re Failing and How to Improve
Healthcare Triage