Emily Judem is multimedia editor at The GroundTruth Project, a foundation-supported initiative dedicated to training the next generation of foreign correspondents in the digital age. It is focused on issues of social justice including human rights, freedom of expression, emerging democracies, the environment, religious affairs and global health, producing Special Reports and continuing coverage for GlobalPost and other key partners. Emily has led the multimedia production for GlobalPost Special Reports on a range of topics including youth unemployment, women's rights, HIV/AIDS and child health. The series she co-led on child health, "Step by Step: The path to ending child mortality," won the 2013 AHCJ Award for global health reporting. Her work has also appeared on the BBC, Capital New York, Huffington Post, Columbia Journalism Review and others.
Before joining GlobalPost, Emily worked as online communications manager at Root Capital, an international development organization based in Cambridge, Mass. There she managed the organization's website and produced multimedia stories about Root Capital's clients in Latin America and Africa. Emily also spent a year teaching kindergarten in Quito, Ecuador, and six months studying Spanish in Salamanca, Spain. She holds an M.S. in digital media journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in American studies from Colby College.
Thanking Goodness: Community care workers and HIV/AIDS patients help each other in South Africa
PEPFAR is moving to support local leadership and implementation capacity for AIDS care and treatment. And given the South African health system’s weaknesses in the face of the magnitude of AIDS and TB, that means an investment in people like Goodness Henama –– lay listeners with just a few weeks of training.
Immunizations for all: Q&A with GAVI Alliance’s Dagfinn Høybråten
Dagfinn Høybråten is the Board chair of GAVI alliance, an organization that aims to save lives by increasing immunization in developing countries. While at the Child Survival Call to Action Conference in Washington, DC this month, he spoke with GlobalPost about why he believes vaccines are essential to Secretary Clinton’s goal of ending preventable child deaths.