Global Investigative Journalism Network (https://archive.gijn.org/tag/implant-files/)
Regulating Drugs: Development & Approval
Tip 1: Dig Deeper into Development & Approval
If your story is about drugs, it is essential to delve into their development and approval history. There’s a trove of valuable information.
Что пригодится для расследований в области здравоохранения: OpenRefine для очистки данных, Datawrapper для создания визуализаций, Linkurious – для исследования связей и MedsPaL для поиска информации о патентах.
When Washington, DC-based journalist Scilla Alecci began investigating a story that would later become part of the Implant Files, she hit a brick wall: Hospitals in India wouldn’t answer her phone calls. So she took the advice of an Indian colleague and booked a flight over. Together, they started knocking on doors all over the country, leading them to unexpected discoveries.
For our series about journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Fabiola Torres of Salud Con Lupa. She told GIJN’s Gaelle Faure all about the tools that help her carry out cross-border investigations into public health, including tools to find data as well as to analyze and visualize it.