Journalism Grants

Journalism Grants is sponsored by NIHCM Foundation. The NIHCM Foundation supports independent health reporting and education projects for journalists that can help policymakers, health plans, health care delivery systems, health care consumers, and/or related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care.

This includes reporting and educational project requests that align with issue areas such as health care costs and quality, health care consolidation, artificial intelligence in health care, prescription drugs and technology, rural health, and maternal health.

NIHCM Foundation supports health reporting and education projects for journalists that can help health plans, policymakers, health care delivery, health care consumers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of US health care. Journalists from national and local print, digital, broadcast, nonprofit, and for-profit news organizations, as well as freelancers, are welcome to apply.

In 2025 - 2026 funding cycle, we solicited proposals in the topic areas described below: Affordability : Reporting or education projects that may inform policymakers, the health care industry, and the public about the many factors that impact the affordability of health care, and/or health care costs.

Pharmaceuticals : Reporting or education projects that examine the factors influencing drug pricing, patents, pricing transparency, and policy interventions aimed at improving access to affordable medications. We are especially interested in work on GLP-1 agonists and related medications.

Provider consolidation and changing markets : Reporting or education projects that look at the effects of health care competition and consolidation on costs, price variation, quality of care, and patient access. Health care delivery : Reporting or education projects that will increase policymaker, industry, and public understanding of the value and challenges of different methods of providing quality health care.

Areas of interest include how different models of care may reduce health care costs, while also improving health care efficiency, quality, and patient outcomes. Chronic disease management : Reporting or education projects that examine the challenges and opportunities associated with managing chronic diseases and related costs, while improving patient outcomes and health care efficiencies.

Artificial Intelligence : Reporting or education projects that explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve health care delivery, efficiency, patient outcomes, and/or the potential challenges that AI introduces in terms of costs, quality of care, or security.

We are especially interested in research on how the use of AI with electronic health records may be increasing coding intensity in the commercially insured population. We also accepted proposals outside of these specific topic areas that met the general criteria of focusing on rising health care costs and affordability, through improved health care financing, delivery, and organization.

The 2025 - 2026 cycle of the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Journalism Grant program is closed. The 2026 - 2027 funding cycle will open in late summer 2026. Please contact Cait Ellis at cellis@nihcm.

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Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 AI and patient safety: Keeping journalists up to date on this dynamic topic Association of Health Care Journalists January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 Can This Obscure Policy Protect People from Medical Debt?

January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 Louisiana at Heavy Risk: A Year-Long Reporting Project on the State’s Obesity Crisis January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 Paying for AI: How clinical algorithms will pull at health care’s purse strings January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 The Price We Pay for GLP-1s January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 The Emergency Response Crisis: The worker shortage ailing America’s emergency medical response system January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 Beyond Burnout: Expanding and Reshaping the Mental Health Workforce January 01, 2026 - December 31, 2026 Is There A Doctor In The House?

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Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) June 23, 2025 - June 23, 2026 Navigating New Pharmaceutical Frontiers July 01, 2025 - July 01, 2026 The Story of a Healthy Birthing Journey Arkansas Center for Health Improvement June 02, 2025 - June 02, 2026 AI in Health Care: The Promise, Possibilities and Problems Very Independent Pictures June 02, 2025 - June 02, 2026 Spotlight on Health Series: Navigating the Rising Cost of Accessible and Quality Health Care June 02, 2025 - June 02, 2026 Inside the Nationwide Network of AI Assurance Labs June 25, 2025 - June 25, 2026 Revealing Promising Opioid Interventions to Reduce Health Care Costs June 02, 2025 - June 02, 2026 Follow the rising costs of health care: helping journalists report on the factors creating upward pressure on health care costs and prices Association for Health Care Journalists/Center for Excellence in Health Journalism June 02, 2025 - June 02, 2026 Crisis in Care: The Workforce Exodus Shaping Texas Health Care June 13, 2025 - 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December 31, 2024 Enhancing Health Reporting Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024 Health Matters Webinar Series USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital December 12, 2022 - December 31, 2023 The Journalist's Resource The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy December 08, 2022 - December 31, 2023 Journalists in Aging Fellows Program - Aging in Place: Social Determinants The Gerontological Society of America December 07, 2022 - December 31, 2023 Evidence-Based Solutions to Advance Health Equity December 07, 2022 - December 31, 2023 Health Issues in Communities of Color January 01, 2023 - June 01, 2023 Communication & Public Health: History and the Path Forward January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2024 Pharmanipulation: Battling Drug Industry Influence PharmedOut, Georgetown University Medical Center November 01, 2022 - October 31, 2023 Disparities in Maternal Mortality January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023 How Cancer Screening Guidelines Increase Disparities November 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024 The Drivers of Health Care Costs, Their Impacts & Solutions January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023 Why psychiatry is failing so many people — and what can be done about it February 01, 2023 - December 15, 2023 The Impact of Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses on Health & Health Systems January 01, 2023 - December 31, 2023 AHCJ-CDC Health Journalism Fellowships Association of Health Care Journalists's Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism December 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023 July 01, 2023 - June 30, 2024 The Safe Water Shortage and Health March 01, 2023 - May 01, 2024 Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis Debra Gonsher Vinik, producer, writer and director January 01, 2023 - September 01, 2023 Health information in Spanish Targeting Latinos January 01, 2023 - June 01, 2023 Communication & Public Health: History and the Path Forward January 03, 2023 - November 30, 2024 Beat Academy: Helping Journalists Cover Health Care 2024 Poynter Institute for Media Studies with KFF November 15, 2022 - November 14, 2023 Highlighting Solutions to the Mental Health Crisis September 01, 2022 - August 31, 2023 Improving Reporting on Mental Health November 01, 2022 - April 01, 2023 Implications of Private Equity Investment in Physician Groups January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024 Enhancing Health Reporting Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023 Rural America’s Hidden Inequities Institute for Nonprofit News December 01, 2021 - December 31, 2023 Closing the Health Gap in Indian Country Indian Country Media, LLC November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023 Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues Alliance for Health Policy November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024 Health Matters Webinar Series USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital December 10, 2021 - December 31, 2022 The Journalist's Resource The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy December 09, 2021 - December 31, 2022 Journalists in Aging Fellows Program The Gerontological Society of America November 30, 2021 - December 31, 2022 Exploring Health Policy Issues November 22, 2021 - December 31, 2022 January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022 November 01, 2021 - November 30, 2022 Elevating Diverse Health Scholars in Journalism December 01, 2020 - December 31, 2021 #IamVanessaGuillen: Military Sexual Trauma (MST) January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022 December 01, 2021 - December 31, 2022 Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air Center for Environmental Filmmaking January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2024 Enhancing Health Reporting Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation August 01, 2021 - July 31, 2022 Examining Racial and Income Health Disparities in Michigan January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2023 Rural America’s Hidden Inequities Institute for Nonprofit News January 01, 2022 - 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June 30, 2022 COVID-19 Collateral Damage November 13, 2020 - December 31, 2021 Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Delivery and Health Care Systems in Michigan December 12, 2020 - December 31, 2021 COVID's Disproportionate Effect on Women's Health December 02, 2020 - December 31, 2021 November 12, 2020 - December 31, 2021 Tackling misinformation by filling Spanish-language health information vacuums November 12, 2020 - April 30, 2022 Covid Deaths Left Orphans.

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American Society of Journalists and Authors November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023 Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues Alliance for Health Policy November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024 Health Matters Webinar Series USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 “No Small Matter” Documentary Kindling Group/Siskel/Jacobs Productions January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 “Unseen Enemy” Documentary January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 Jennifer Redfearn & Tim Metzger, Red Antelope Films January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 "Broken Places" Documentary Public Policy Productions/WNET January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 The Oregonian/Oregon Live January 01, 2019 - December 31, 2019 Autoimmune Drugs and Rising Adverse Events The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MedPage Today & USA Today Network January 01, 2019 - June 30, 2019 Investigating How the U.S. Is Preparing for the Next Pandemic April 15, 2019 - April 14, 2020 The 2019 Health Coverage Fellowship Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation November 27, 2019 - December 31, 2020 The Journalist's Resource The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy December 02, 2019 - June 30, 2021 Breaking the Silence: Innovative Approaches to Suicide Prevention The Oregonian/Oregon Live November 10, 2019 - December 31, 2020 Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma October 24, 2019 - April 30, 2021 The 2020 Health Coverage Fellowship Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation November 01, 2016 - December 31, 2023 Webinars: Rapid Response Briefings on Health Policy Issues Alliance for Health Policy November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2024 Health Matters Webinar Series USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism's Center for Health Journalism Digital November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020 November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2022 Ticking Time Bombs: Reevaluating How We Think About Breast Cancer November 06, 2019 - June 30, 2021 "Sick" Podcast Season Two Side Effects Public Media November 25, 2019 - January 27, 2020 Generation Lonely: 10,000 Followers and No Friends National Public Radio/Dawn Fallik December 02, 2019 - December 31, 2020 An Investigation of Chronic Kidney Disease and Treatment Disparities in the U.S. November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020 Health Care and the 2020 Elections November 25, 2019 - December 31, 2021 Exploring the Consumer Impact of Consolidation November 06, 2019 - December 31, 2020 The Opioid Crisis: Why We’re Failing and How to Improve