About the Call

The 2023 Global Health Security Call is a project that will deliver grant funding and facilitate research opportunities to support in-depth journalistic analysis on the topic of global health security.

Its mission is to incentivise and enable impactful journalistic coverage of the topic, in order to create sustained relationships between freelance journalists and media organisations, and engage the public, key stakeholders and decision makers about the topic.

The Call will provide grants of up to $8,500 USD per project and is aimed at journalists publishing stories in opinion-forming media organisations across France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Sweden. Applications close on 9 December 2022 at 17:00 CET.

Who can apply

This Call is for individual journalists (freelance or permanently employed ), or for small teams of journalists, that are experienced in reporting on the topic of health, science, development and/or policy.

The funded story must be published in an opinion-forming media organisation (and preferably more than one) that is based in and/or has significant reach to audiences in one or more of the following target countries: France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Sweden.

The published story must be either one comprehensive long-form story or a serie of stories.

Grantees will have a three-month period (mid January — mid May 2023) to research, produce, edit and publish their story.

How to apply

The application deadline is Friday, 9 December 2022 at 17:00 CET / 16:00 GMT.

Applications need to be submitted, in English, through the EJC’s online grants application platform.