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<p>Fellows Sharon Salyer and Alejandro Dominguez's exhaustively-reported series on the mental health challenges facing Hispanics in the Pacific Northwest has won journalism prizes from the Association of Health Care Journalists, <span class="yshortcuts" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">National Institute of Health Care Management</span>, Mental Health America and the <span class="yshortcuts" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;">Society of Professional Journalists</span> of the <sp
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<p>My four-part series, a project of the <a href="/fellowships/seminars/national-health-journalism">2008 National Health Journalism Fellowship</a>, won first place for minority issue reporting in the state's Society of Professional Journalists contest. It examined the cultural factors which prevent Navajos from receiving cancer treatment through western medicine and the "patient navigators" who are trying to bridge the divide.</p>
