Fellows & Editors
David Kohn
- Trip:
- Fellows Spring 2000
- Affiliation:
- CBSNews.com
- Country:
- Uzbekistan
- Year:
- 2000
David Kohn is a medicine and health reporter (and now blogger) for The Baltimore Sun. He spent 2006-07 as a Nieman/Gates Global Health Fellow at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. As part of the Fellowship, he spent four months reporting on health in India. He has covered a wide-range of stories, including the politics of U.S. international AIDS policy, the post-Katrina healthcare crisis in New Orleans, and infant mortality in Baltimore and India. Before coming to The Sun, he was a senior producer for CBSNews.com.
Stories
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Farewell to an Ancient Minority in Central Asia
SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN - Along the narrow, crooked streets of Samarkand's Ivritski Mahalla - the Jewish Quarter - the signs are everywhere: House For Sale; Desperate To Sell Now. The going rate: around $2,000....
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Photo Essay: The Aral Sea’s Isle of Despair
In 1960, the town of Muynak was a prosperous island, encircled by the abundant waters of the Aral Sea, in which local fishermen caught about 20,000 tons of fish a year. Today, Muynak is 100...
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Man-Made Drought Wreaks Havoc in Karakalpakstan
KARAKALPAKSTAN, Uzbekistan, Fall 2000 -- People in Karakalpakstan have a saying: those upstream drink water, those downstream drink poison. This year, many people in Karakalpakstan don’t have much to drink at...
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