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2024 Winner

The Human Limit

The Washington Post

Niko Kommenda, Annie Gowen, Shannon Osaka, Erin Patrick O’Connor, Simon Ducroquet, Hailey Haymond, Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penney, John Muyskens, Kevin Crowe, Carolyn Van Houten, Jahi Chikwendiu, Rachel Chason, Oriana Chegwidden, Jeremy Freeman, Anant Gupta, Atul Loke, Kareem Fahim, Saiyna Bashir, Ali al-Mujahed, Lorenzo Tugnoli, Caitlin O’Hara, and Adriana Zehbrauskas

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Niko Kommenda

Annie Gowen

Shannon Osaka

Erin Patrick O'Connor

Hailey Haymond

Noam N. Levey

Aneri Pattani

Yuki Noguchi

Anna Werner

Bram Sable-Smith

Bram Sable-Smith

Juweek Adolphe

Megan Kalata

2023 Winner

Diagnosis: Debt

KFF Health News in partnership with NPR and CBS News

Noam N. Levey, Aneri Pattani, Yuki Noguchi, Anna Werner, Bram Sable-Smith, Juweek Adolphe, and Megan Kalata

Series Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

2022 Winner

Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution

ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, and Mountain State Spotlight

Lylla Younes, Al Shaw, Ava Kofman, Lisa Song, Max Blau, Maya Miller, Kiah Collier, Ken Ward Jr., Alyssa Johnson, Lucas Waldron, Kathleen Flynn

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Lylla Younes

Al Shaw

Ava Kofman

Lisa Song

Max Blau

Maya Miller

Kiah Collier

Ken Ward Jr.

Alyssa Johnson

Lucas Waldron

Kathleen Flynn

Christina Jewett

Danielle Renwick

credit: Lydia Zuraw/KHN

2021 Winner

Lost on the Frontline

Kaiser Health News and The Guardian

Christina Jewett, Danielle Renwick, Alastair Gee and the Lost on the Frontline team

2020 Winner

Heat and Health in American Cities and Code Red: Baltimore's Climate Divide

National Public Radio, The University of Maryland Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and Capital News Service

Meg Anderson and Sean McMinn

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2019 Winner

The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5

Undark Magazine

Larry Price, Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Talia Bronshtein, Sohara Mehroze Shachi, Anna Cunningham and Brendan Borrel

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2018 Winner

The Orphan Drug Machine

Kaiser Health News

Sarah Jane Tribble, Sydney Lupkin, Heidi de Marco, John Hillkirk, Francis Ying, Lydia Zuraw, Diane Webber and Scott Hensley

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2017 Winner

STAT: Coverage of the opioid crisis

STAT

David Armstrong, Matthew Orr and Natalia Bronshtein

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2016 Winner

When Silver Is Worth More Than Gold or Platinum

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Andrew Sprung

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2015 Winner

Healthcare Triage—Using Evidence to Inform Policy

Healthcare Triage

Aaron Carroll, Mark Olsen, Stan Muller

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