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Mia Malan
Founder and editor-in-chief of the Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, South Africa’s leading independent health news organisation. Mia Malan began her career at the SABC in 1995 as lead health correspondent during the height of the AIDS epidemic, and later worked in newsrooms in Johannesburg, Nairobi, and Washington DC. She launched Bhekisisa in 2013 and led it to independence as a nonprofit media startup in 2019. A Knight International Journalism Fellow and Oxford Reuters Institute Fellow, she has won more than 30 awards for her radio, print, and television work.