Project: Conte will create a cadre of health journalism professionals who will find new ways to deliver urgent information to citizens threatened by poverty and disease. He will help these journalists build an association that supports their work with resources and a newsletter. He also will pioneer technological innovations in health news delivery.

Partner Organization: The New Vision, Kampala, Uganda

Biography: Christopher Conte reported and was then news editor at The Wall Street Journal for 15 years. Currently a staff correspondent for Governing magazine, Conte has conducted research and written reports and articles on health issues for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. He is also a contributor to the Congressional Quarterly, where he worked as a staff reporter covering economic issues, the federal budget, and banking in the late 1970s. Conte has conducted workshops on journalism and the U.S. economy and politics for foreign journalists in South Africa and the West Indies, and at the U.S. Department of State. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in Social Studies.

Conte helped restart the Uganda Health Communication Alliance (UHCA), an association of health journalists. UHCA is now organizing regular workshops in collaboration with local and international experts. The association also recently published its second monthly newsletter, providing reports on workshops, information on upcoming lectures, a guest column and links to resources.