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Christopher Conte: Uganda

Christopher Conte is a Knight Health Journalism Fellow who is now leading a project to improve coverage of health issues in Uganda.


He worked as a
Project Goal: Develop new health section in leading national newspaper; relaunch health journalism association that produces a newsletter and organizes workshops for health journalists across the region.
reporter and news editor at The Wall Street Journal for 15 years before joining the staff of Governing magazine as a correspondent.


He has also conducted research and written reports on health issues for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Conte contributes articles to Congressional Quarterly, where he worked as a staff reporter covering economic issues, the federal budget, and banking in the late 1970s.


He has conducted workshops on journalism and the U.S. economy and politics for foreign journalists in South Africa, in the West Indies, and at the U.S. Department of State. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in Social Studies. Contact: crconte@earthlink.net

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In late 2007, when I learned that I would be coming to Uganda to train and support health journalists here, I sought advice from Bobby Pestronk, the longest serving and one of the most highly respected local public health officials in the U.S. “The first thing you need to realize,” he told me, “is that nothing you do is going to make a difference.”