Fellows & Editors
Jill Braden Balderas
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2011
- Affiliation:
- Freelance journalist
- Country:
- Uganda
- Year:
- 2011
Jill Braden Balderas is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist focusing on global health, medicine and international development. As a multimedia reporter/producer, she has covered these issues on six continents across all mediums, including in The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, and PRI’s “The World.” Balderas is currently on leave from the Kaiser Family Foundation, where for the past eight years, she has served as managing editor of several news and information publications focusing on domestic and global health policy issues. While at Reuters, Balderas covered everything from cloning to the U.S. anthrax attacks and won a Unity Award for her television broadcast coverage of diabetes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Before joining Reuters, she freelanced for Health24News and various national and international radio stations covering the 2000 U.S. elections. During this time, she wrote a special series on health in then-war-torn Sudan as well as HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Balderas was also a reporter and editor for National Journal’s The Hotline and Politics Daily publications and a political analyst for MSNBC. Balderas has undergraduate degrees in Spanish and psychology from The University of Georgia and a master of public health in epidemiology from The George Washington University.
Follow a live feed of her tweets, videos, and reports from Uganda.
Post-IRP Stories
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August 15, 2011 | International Reporting Project
Backpack Journalism: Crossing the Boundaries of Media
Stories
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Climate Change Raises New Challenges for Uganda’s Coffee Farmers
When you grow coffee, dead, brown leaves are not what you want to see. But they have been a scourge recently for coffee farmer Ahmed Nsubuga. "It's not good to show...
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Over-Treating Malaria in Africa
At a crowded public hospital in eastern Uganda, Jane Akutu sits on a wooden bench. She cradles her infant son, Daniel. "He's feeling hot," she says. "His stomach is paining him."...
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Cultural Dynamics of Foreign Health Reporting
Jill Braden Balderas reported on malaria in Uganda as a spring 2011 IRP Fellow. In this video, she discusses how foreign reporters--particularly women--adjust to the dynamics of new cultures. Joining her is Ann...
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B.Y.O.S. (Bring Your Own Silverware!)
Those who know me well won't be the least surprised that I squirreled away rather surreptitiously the plastic utensils from my flight to Uganda from Amsterdam last week. I just knew they'd...
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