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[NEW!] Hemispheric Winner of PAHO Centennial Journalism Contest Announced

André Picard, a reporter for the Toronto Globe & Mail, has been named the winner of the Pan American Health Organization's Centennial Journalism Contest.
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PAHO Announces U.S. Winner of Pan American Public Health Reporting Award

Marisol Bello, a special projects reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, has won the Pan American Health Organization's U.S. contest for best public health reporting for a special section on "Haiti, Mission of Hope." In eight pages of stories, Bello chronicled "The desperate state of health care in Haiti and what western Pennsylvanians are doing to help. "
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Winners Announced for Centennial Poster & Essay Contests

Reeshemah Ball Róger Flores López Reeshemah Ball (left), age 10, of Jamaica, is the winner of the Pan American Centennial Poster contest. You can see her winning poster at the gallery of winners specially created to highlight the best posters from each country. In the Pan American Centennial Essay contest, Róger Flores López (right), age 17, from Peru, is the winner. You can read his essay, "Unidos por la Salud" (in Spanish) here.

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