Journalists who report on health issues are invited to apply for a Nieman Global Health fellowship at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (US).

The Nieman Foundation will award two Nieman Fellowships in Global Health Reporting for the academic year, one to a US citizen and one to a non-US citizen.

The fellows will spend one academic year at Harvard, followed by three to four months of field work in a developing country. During their Nieman year, the global health fellows will participate in weekly activities at the Nieman Foundation, as well as audit classes throughout Harvard University.

The three to four months of field work are intended to provide an intensive learning and reporting experience in countries with the most pressing problems in global health. At the conclusion of their field work, the fellows will be expected to produce work based on this experience and their academic studies. This work could be stories, a case study, or a handbook of best practices related to reporting on health issues in a developing country.

Qualifications for applicants include:

• All applicants must be full-time staff or freelance journalists for the news or editorial departments of newspapers, wire services, radio, television, online publications, or magazines of general public interest. Additionally, photojournalists, editorial cartoonists, columnists, and broadcast producers are eligible.
• All applicants must have at least 5 years of professional news-media experience, although most have been working for between 7 and 10 years.
• Applicants must have their employer's consent for a 13- to 14-month leave of absence.
• If you have recently participated in a fellowship, full-time course of study, or other sabbatical programme lasting four months or more, please wait two years before applying for a Nieman Fellowship.

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Nieman Foundation website on November 18 2009.