Are you looking for ways to promote your health-related business or organization through the media? If so, we have some great news for you! We’ve put together a comprehensive listing of current media opportunities in the health sector. This list will help you identify potential media outlets, such as magazines, blogs, podcasts, and TV shows, where you can share your message and reach your target audience. So, let’s dive in and explore the exciting world of media opportunities in the health sector!
COVID-19, Vaccines and Global Health Inequities Reporting Grant Program
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for enterprise and underreported stories about COVID-19 inequities and other U.S. and global health system failures…[more]
Story Grant and Training Program for Indigenous Environmental Journalists
Deadline: 18 January 2024
The Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is offering reporting grants to Indigenous journalists to support the production of in-depth environmental stories that call attention to climate justice, biodiversity, sustainable ecosystems, Indigenous sovereignty and leadership, and other issues related to the rights and well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities…[more]
Grants to advance Journalism on Issues Impacting Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Deadline: Ongoing
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals to advance wide-reaching and relevant journalism on issues impacting communities in sub-Saharan Africa, including but not limited to water and sanitation, land degradation and coastal erosion, education, maternal health, and climate resilience…[more]
Call for Submissions: Health for All Film Festival (HAFF)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting public health institutions from around the world, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), communities, activists and students in public health, film schools, and other relevant domains to submit their original short films championing a health issue…[more]
Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program
Deadline: 15 January 2024
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists from around the globe, giving them an opportunity to explore science, technology, and the craft of journalism; to concentrate on a specialty in science; and to learn at some of the top research universities in the world…[more]
EURORDIS Photo Black Pearl Awards – Photo Contest
Deadline: 31 January 2024
Apply for the EURORDIS Photo Award, an opportunity to visually express what it means to live with a rare disease and to share your story with the rare disease community and beyond…[more]
Call for Submissions: Planet Forward Storyfest Awards
Deadline: 5 February 2024
The Planet Forward is accepting submissions for the stories surrounding the people, ideas, and innovations moving the world toward a greener future…[more]
Serious Mental Illness Short Film Competition
Deadline: 17 March 2024
Voices With Impact’s Serious Mental Illness Short Film Competition is an open call for short films that explore issues related to diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder and can results in impairments that interfere with a person’s life and ability to function…[more]
Merck Foundation Film Awards “Diabetes& Hypertension” (Africa)
Deadline: 30 October 2024
The Merck Foundation is calling for applications from filmmakers to create and share long or short FILM/ FILMS, drama, documentary or docudrama to deliver strong and influential messages to promote healthy lifestyle and raising awareness about prevention and early detection of Diabetes and Hypertension…[more]
Media Recognition Awards “Diabetes & Hypertension”
Deadline: 30 October 2024
The Merck Foundation is pleased to announce the Media Recognition Awards “Diabetes & Hypertension”…[more]
Call for Proposals: Boosting Fact-Checking Activities in Europe
Deadline: 29 February 2024
The Call Boosting Fact-checking Activities in Europe aims at supporting projects from independent fact-checking organisations, which play a key role in limiting the negative effects of disinformation on the public discourse and democratic processes…[more]
International AIDS Society’s Media Scholarship Programme
Deadline: 23 January 2024
The International AIDS Society (IAS) Media Scholarship Programme is open to journalists/media specialists/online content creators…[more]
Grants for Media Arts Projects in the US
Deadline: 15 February 2024
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is proud to support the nation’s arts sector with grant opportunities so that together they can help everyone live more artful lives…[more]
Investigative and General Reporting Award (US)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Investigative and General Reporting Award to recognize excellence in reporting focused on written articles on important and emerging issues in health and health care…[more]
Submissions open for Trade Journalism Award (US)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation is accepting submissions for the Trade Journalism Awards to recognize the excellence in health care reporting and writing on the financing and delivery of health care and the impact of health care policy…[more]
NIHCM Foundation’s Television and Audio Journalism Award (US)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation has launched the Television and Audio Journalism Award to recognize excellence in television and audio reporting on health care issues and policy…[more]
Knight Science Journalism’s Victor K. McElheny Award (US)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Victor K. McElheny award recognizes outstanding coverage of science, public-health, technology, or environmental issues at the local or regional level…[more]
EU Civil Society Facility and Media Programme for Kosovo
Deadline: 6 February 2024
The European Commission has launched the Civil Society and Media programme to improve the working environment of media professionals and journalists, and to promote independent and quality journalism, particularly coming from non-mainstream, local, and non-majority media…[more]
Submissions open for Global Health Media Fellowship (US)
Deadline: 19 January 2024
Submissions are now open for the Global Health Media Fellowship to provide medical students with up to 12 months of practical training in the fundamentals of journalism, communications, and global health reporting on a variety of media platforms in order to build a generation of physician-storytellers who can combat medical misinformation and shine a light on untold global health stories…[more]
Verite News Fellowship for Early-Career Journalists (US)
Deadline: 31 January 2024
The Verite News Fellowship is designed for early-career journalists who want to spend 12 months learning from a newsroom of passionate, dedicated journalists…[more]
Nominations open for RNAO Media Awards – Canada
Deadline: 1 March 2024
The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) is accepting nominations for the Media Awards to honour journalists for their outstanding reporting on nursing and health-care issues…[more]
