Fellows & Editors

Jaclyn Schiff

Trip:: Zambia 2013
Affiliation:: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Country:: Zambia
Year:: 2013

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Jaclyn Schiff, a Chicago-based independent journalist, has written about global health and development for a variety of online outlets. She is a contributor to UN Dispatch and is the host and executive producer of Pangea, a global affairs podcast. Schiff’s work has appeared on NPR, AllAfrica.com, CBSNews.com, the website of The New York Times, Humanosphere, Devex, The Huffington Post and Women’s eNews. She is the communications director for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Previously, Schiff worked as a web reporter for the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Daily Global Health Policy Report and wrote about health policy for Kaiser Health News. She has provided media consulting to George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, United Press International and the United Nations Foundation, among others. She graduated cum laude from George Washington University with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs.

Stories

Activist Questions Sustainability of Zambia’s HIV Funding Plan

by Schiff, Jaclyn | August 05, 2013

Zambia's government says it has met the challenge raised in the 2001 Abuja Declaration for African countries to spend at least 15 percent of their annual budgets on health care. Officials say part...
Zambian Chief Challenges Beliefs on Circumcision

by Schiff, Jaclyn | July 24, 2013

{image-1} As the influential leader of Zambia's Kaonde people, Chief Jonathan Eshiloni Mumena's decision to undergo male circumcision was nothing short of a public health practitioner's dream. Since undergoing...
Zambian Caregiver Driven by Love to Visit TB Patients

by Schiff, Jaclyn | July 19, 2013

The government-run health clinic I visited this morning in Lusaka, Zambia, as a visiting International Reporting Project fellow was bustling. Dozens of women, babies, children, and men milled about the small,...
Lusaka in Photos

by Schiff, Jaclyn | July 16, 2013

{image-5} This is one of my favorite photos from Zambia so far. I’m traveling here as an International Reporting Project fellow (trip details). The photo was taken from inside a...