学生获得2025年普利策中心报道奖学金.
学生获得2025年普利策中心报道奖学金
公共卫生硕士学生艾琳·约翰斯顿将访问英国，报告神经分化澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究人员为改善及时诊断和护理所做的努力。
艾琳·约翰斯顿, a 2025 Master of Public Health 学生, has been named a 2025 普利策中心报道澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究员.
The Pulitzer fellowship program is part of a long-standing collaboration between the 公共卫生学院, the 波士顿大学 传媒学院, and the 普利策危机报道中心 through BU’s 全球健康故事计划. 普利策奖获得者探索新闻与公共卫生的交叉点，同时开发一个澳门威尼斯人注册被低估的健康危机的多媒体项目。
This year, Johnston was selected along with COM 学生 Shandra回来, whose reporting from the Dominican Republic will explore how national and international policy decisions are fueling record levels of deportation in the bateyes of San Pedro de Macorí, a collection of informal settlements surrounding sugarcane plantations where a large number of Haitian migrant workers and stateless Dominicans of Haitian descent have 长期生活在威胁之下 of xenophobia and racial discrimination. Photos and a short narrative podcast featuring the voices of batey residents and community leaders will complement Back’s longform article.
Johnston, who studies 健康传播和促进 at SPH, will report from the opposite side of the Atlantic for her project titled, “Agents of Change for the Neurodivergent Community in the United Kingdom.” 约翰斯顿写道，通过与自己认为是神经分化者的澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究人员交谈，她“旨在了解人们、地点和系统如何为英国的神经多样性社区创造空间和支持。”
According to National Health Service (NHS), the UK’s publicly funded healthcare system, 神经的多样性 is the recognition that the human population is made up of a diversity of different brains. 大多数人用共同的方式表达自己，形成了社会规范的基础，可以被描述为“神经典型”，但少数群体-估计在英国有七分之一的人-在神经上与规范不同，可以被称为“神经发散型”。 英国国民保健制度将神经发散性疾病归类为残疾，使那些被诊断为残疾的人有权获得某些健康和护理服务。
“A lot of times the world was created not for neurodivergent people and that’s why I think there’s a lot of stigma and a lot of misconceptions and a lot of misunderstanding,” says Johnston, who identifies as neurodivergent herself. “（神经分化）只是一种不同的思维方式，一种不同的感知世界的方式。 这会让事情变得非常困难，也会让事情变得非常精彩。”
约翰斯顿指出，神经分化对每个人来说都意味着一些不同的东西，但许多神经分化的人都同意需要支持来帮助他们茁壮成长。 “[My] hope is that, when I’m able to talk to people, [I can] ask them, ‘What does it mean for you to be neurodivergent?’” she says.
Johnston’s experience living with obsessive compulsive disorder inspired her to study psychology as an undergraduate at 石城大学. 毕业后，她在一家精神病院找到了一份工作，与患有自闭症和发育障碍的儿童以及神经分化的青少年一起工作。 在那里，她亲眼目睹了诊断后支持的缺乏是如何导致健康结果不公平的，特别是对于那些因年龄增长而离开青年医疗机构并被安置在成人医疗机构的个人。
With 超过20万患者 currently awaiting assessments for autism alone in the UK, delays in diagnosis—and subsequently, in post-diagnostic healthcare—are not problems unique to the U.S., Johnston says. 但在NHS的不足之处，她发现一些神经分化者正在主动帮助像他们一样的人。
During the first stop of her upcoming reporting trip, Johnston will visit two London-based institutions at the forefront of efforts to provide solutions for neurodivergent people by neurodivergent people: the 自闭症与教育澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究中心 (CRAE) at 伦敦大学学院 (UCL) and Kanjo, an AI-driven, health-tech startup providing pre-clinical evaluations for ADHD, autism, and their comorbidities to aid parents in getting timely, accurate care for their children. Johnston will meet with 索菲娅Parvizi-Wayne, Kanjo founder and CEO; 布莱恩•欧文， UCL CRAE澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究员； 还有一些人喜欢他们来澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究和记录他们在神经分化群体中作为变革者的贡献。
约翰斯顿决心成为广大神经分化群体的倡导者，他首先进入SPH，与全球心理健康领域的其他人建立联系。 作为一名公共卫生硕士学生，她学会了引导自己的激情，并运用自己的专业知识来制作有效的公共卫生传播。 In classes like 大众传播和公共卫生（SB733）—under the instruction of 詹妮弗·罗斯, associate professor of health law, policy and management—Johnston and her peers developed a media campaign to promote gun control in Texas, for example. This past spring, Johnston rekindled her lifelong love for writing in 全球健康故事（PH701）, a course on journalism for public health co-taught by 詹妮弗胡子, clinical associate professor of global health, and 约翰Baynard, master lecturer in the 新闻系 at the 波士顿大学传播学院. 她称赞比尔德鼓励她申请普利策中心奖学金。
比尔德回忆说，他建议约翰斯顿选择一个与她有个人联系的话题，如果可能的话，她可以为自己的申请做一些报告。 比尔德说，两人再次通话时，约翰斯顿已经在伦敦有了联系人。 “That’s when I knew her application would be strong,” Beard says. “[Johnston] personifies the type of public health 学生 we hope will enroll in the 全球健康 Storytelling class. 她在报道方面的经验有限，近年来她的大部分精力都集中在学术和技术写作上。 在我们的课上，她接受了所有她正在学习的新技能——摄影、录像、采访、描述性写作等等。 I am inspired by [her] enthusiasm!”
约翰斯顿希望她的故事能够强调自我倡导的重要性，以及利用个人生活经历提升自己所在社区的力量。 “I think, in this space particularly, it’s important for people with the lived experience of being neurodivergent to be spearheading the efforts,” she says. “And I’ve never been to London, so I’m just excited to be in a new place and [to] talk to the people who are doing the work.”
卡洛琳Dignard (SPH’24), a former writing fellow at SPH’s 公共卫生站, received the Pulitzer fellowship last year. Dignard traveled to Nunavut, Canada’s northernmost province, to report on 土著粮食主权, including efforts to sustain traditional Inuit hunting and fishing practices. 她的报告结果即将公布。
