The National Press Foundation has announced the journalist fellows who will be travelling to Cape Town in December to attend the J2J Lung Health Training Programme and the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health.
Fifteen journalists have been selected from a high-quality, competitive field of more than 260 applicants, all of whom were working journalists with demonstrated interest and success in covering lung health and other public health issues. This year’s fellows will be coming from Bangladesh, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Uganda, Zambia and ‘home’ nation, South Africa.
The fellows will participate in an intensive two-day training to fill them in on the latest research on TB and other lung health issues, including tobacco control. They will have the opportunity to hear from some of the world’s top experts in these fields and then will go on to cover the five-day scientific programme offered by the conference.
This will be the seventh year that the National Press Foundation has collaborated with The Union to educate journalists on these issues.
For more details on the programme and to meet the 2015 fellows.
Photo: 2014 J2J fellow Nomaswazi Nkosi of Soweto (South Africa) interviewed Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa's Minister of Health, at the World Conference in Barcelona.