Scholarships available to reporters for conference addressing healthcare inequalities

WASHINGTON Journalists who attend a conference on healthcare disparities will get professional scholarships.

The National Association of Black Journalists said that journalists attending the NABJ Conference on Health Disparities in Atlanta will receive scholarships via funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The conference will take place Jan. 30 to 31.

“Medical issues are the silent killer in the African-American community,” NABJ president Barbara Ciara said in a statement. “The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has the foresight to support journalism education that will help enlighten our communities with the knowledge that will save lives.”

The NABJ said the conference, the first of its kind that the organization has sponsored, will address heart disease, breast cancer, strokes, mental health, childhood obesity and HIV/AIDS.