{"id":49374,"date":"2026-09-21T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T04:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/?p=49374"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T09:07:21","slug":"winners-of-this-years-semmelweis-richter-international-journalism-award-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/2026\/09\/winners-of-this-years-semmelweis-richter-international-journalism-award-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of this year\u2019s Semmelweis\u2013Richter International Journalism Award announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the second time, Semmelweis University, with the support of Gedeon Richter Plc., has recognized outstanding health and science journalism from across Europe through the Semmelweis\u2013Richter Journalism Award. Six entries received awards in the \u201cWomen\u2019s Health\u201d and \u201cPharmaceutical Strategies and Innovation\u201d categories. The first prizes in the two categories were awarded to an international investigative project on abortion and an article about a technology that uses miniature bioengineered devices to mimic the functions of human organs. The competition received around 60 entries from nearly 20 countries.\u00a0<\/div>\n

\n\"\"<\/a>The Semmelweis\u2013Richter Journalism Award was established to recognize high-quality health and science journalism in Europe. As last year, the competition attracted entries from journalists working for major international media outlets, including The Guardian<\/em>, the Financial Times<\/em>, The Times<\/em>, BBC News<\/em>, S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em> and P\u00fablico<\/em>. The award-winning articles covered topics ranging from the impact of climate change on pregnancy and the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare to the potential risks of artificially created organisms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

First prize in the \u201cWomen\u2019s Health\u201d category went to Exporting Abortion, an international investigative journalism project. The project, involving more than a dozen European journalists, was coordinated by Sergio Sangiao, Emilia G. Morales, and Nacho Calle from the Spanish newspaper P\u00fablico<\/em>. It examined the barriers faced by women across Europe who cannot access abortion, or have only limited access to it, in their own countries and therefore have to travel abroad for the procedure.<\/p>\n

Sarah Neville of the Financial Times<\/em> took second place with an article looking at how climate change and increasingly frequent extreme heat are raising the risks associated with pregnancy and the potential dangers for both mothers and their unborn children.<\/p>\n

Third prize was awarded to Lauren Shirreff of The Telegraph<\/em>, who told the story of a young woman to highlight the serious consequences of an incorrect psychiatric diagnosis and the stigma faced by patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.<\/p>\n

In the \u201cPharmaceutical Strategies and Innovation\u201d category, Vito Tartamella of the Italian magazine Focus<\/em> took first place. His article looked at organ-on-a-chip technology, which uses human cells to model the functions of individual organs and could offer new possibilities for drug development, reduce the need for animal testing and support the testing of personalized therapies.<\/p>\n

Kaya Burgess of The Times<\/em> received second prize for an article examining \u201cmirror bacteria\u201d that could potentially be artificially created as mirror images of naturally occurring bacteria and the risks they could pose.<\/p>\n

Third place went to Filipa Mendes of the Portuguese newspaper P\u00fablico<\/em>, who wrote about an artificial intelligence model that analyzes health data to assess the likelihood of developing any of more than 1,000 diseases, in some cases decades in advance.<\/p>\n

The entries were evaluated by an international jury. Its members were Dr B\u00e9la Merkely, Rector of Semmelweis University; G\u00e1bor Orb\u00e1n, CEO of Gedeon Richter; Dr N\u00e1ndor \u00c1cs, Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Semmelweis University; Professor E. Szilveszter Vizi, medical doctor, academician, former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Professor Rossella E. Nappi, obstetrician-gynecologist; and Tom Whipple, journalist at The Times and one of last year\u2019s winners of the competition.<\/p>\n

The two categories have a combined prize fund of EUR 45,000. First-place winners receive EUR 10,000, second-place winners EUR 7,500 and third-place winners EUR 5,000.<\/p>\n

The winners will be honored at the Semmelweis\u2013Richter Journalism Award ceremony in Budapest on November 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cover photo (illustration): iStock by Getty Images \u2013 Kkolosov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Semmelweis\u2013Richter Journalism Award once again honored outstanding health and science journalism from across Europe this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102533,"featured_media":49377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,17,286],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-49374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","category-semmelweis-world","category-x-nyitolap","tag-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49381,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49374\/revisions\/49381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semmelweis.hu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}