Pulitzer Center Update December 9, 2025
Meet the 2025 Global Health Teacher Fellows
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This fall, the Pulitzer Center selected 12 educators from around the United States to participate in our K-12 Education team’s Fall 2025 Teacher Fellowship program, “Examining Interconnected Health Inequities Through Global Reporting." As a cohort, these educators worked to analyze how global health news stories from Africa, Asia, and Latin America engage students in critical analysis of interconnected health inequities; encourage students to make local and personal connections; and empower students to apply their learning through civic engagement.
The Fellows, representing 12 individual states, brought a diversity of perspectives and experiences to this work. The cohort included educators working with students from 5th-12th grade, aligning and incorporating global health reporting into their coursework. Their courses included English, environmental science, journalism, biology, government and politics, Spanish, and French.
Learn more about these amazing Fellows in our slideshow below (click on the image to advance slides).
Over the course of the fellowship program, Teacher Fellows participated in an orientation and five learning workshops. During workshops, Fellows had the opportunity to build community with one another, explore ways to align and integrate global health reporting into their curricula, and craft a learning experience (instruction over 1-3 class periods) to facilitate student connection to a global health topic through reporting. When the program fully culminates at the end of December, Fellows will have implemented their learning experiences in classrooms and documented student learning and impact. Their lessons and reflections will be available in our lesson library in Spring 2025.
Beyond developing resources for students, the fellowship program allowed educators the opportunity to increase their own understanding of global health issues and the process journalists take to report such stories. Fellows connected with Pulitzer Center Executive Editor Marina Walker Guevara and engaged with the following Pulitzer Center grantees telling critical health stories around the world:
- Fabiola Torres, an award-winning investigative journalist who specializes in public health, inequalities, and gender. Fellows explored Fabiola’s project, The Insulin Oligopoly and the Diabetes Epidemic in Latin America.
- Susan Schulman, an award-winning freelance photo/print/video journalist and her project, A Day in the Life: Crisis Hits Hospitals in Iraq.
- Abdullahi Tsanni, a science journalist specializing in narrative features on the reporting team for the project, Decolonizing Research in Africa.
The 12 members of the Fall 2025 Teacher Fellow cohort build on a community of over 100 amazing educators who have participated in teacher fellowships over the past four years. For more information on our fellowship program, and to explore learning experiences developed by previous Fellows, click here.
