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Discovery Health Journalist of the Year: Mia Malan
Prior to this she was a health journalism lecturer at Rhodes University and a Knight HealthJournalism Fellow based in Johannesburg.
Mia set up the first health journalism programme of the media development organisation,Internews Network, in Kenya in 2003, and was the organisation’s Senior Health Journalism Advisor in Washington, DC between 2006 and 2009.
Prior to this, Mia was the SABC’s radio and television healthcorrespondent. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the CNN Africa Radio Journalist ofthe Year, the Sikuvile Commentary and Analysis Award in 2011 and the SA Press Club’s 2013 awards forboth print and radio features.
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Discovery operates in the healthcare cover market in South Africa, the United Kingdom and China; the life assurance market in South Africa and the United Kingdom; as well as the long-term savings and investment market, and short-term insurance market in South Africa.
Vitality, Discovery’s wellness programme, is the world’s largest scientific, incentive-based wellness solution. It provides individual and corporate wellness initiatives in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and China. The global Vitality membership base now exceeds 3.4 million lives.
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier, and to enhance and protect their lives through financial products that clients need and want.
