Science magazine deputy news editor Leslie Roberts and contributing correspondent Martin Enserink have won the 2008 American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Public Communications Award for their three-part series 'Combating Malaria'. The series details the role of microbiology in combating malaria as well as the challenge of delivering advances in medicine to those who need them.
The award recognises outstanding journalistic achievement in increasing public awareness, knowledge, and understanding of microbiology. It carries an honorarium of $2,500 and travel to the ASM General Meeting, June 1 - 5 in Boston, where it will be presented.
Leslie Roberts specialises in infectious disease and has written extensively on polio, malaria, rotavirus, and other global health concerns. As a deputy news editor since 2000, Roberts oversees the magazine's news coverage of global health and biology. Martin Enserink worked as a science journalist and editor at various publications before becoming a news writer for Science magazine. He specialises in infectious diseases. In 2004, he became a contributing correspondent for Science from Paris and Amsterdam.
The 'Combating Malaria' series looks at malaria from several angles - as an historical killer of millions, as a nearly unrivaled challenge for health workers and strategists, and as a daunting task for drug makers. It also looks at the ambitious plan to use new donor money to eradicate the disease entirely and examines the malaria community and the different views on how to tackle emerging challenges and opportunities.
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