Awards

2010 – White House Correspondents’ Association's Edgar A. Poe Award for Excellence of Coverage of News of National or Regional Significance for “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.”
Judges' comments: "Through extensive use of county health records, Bohan and Kleffman stand conventional wisdom on its head, providing powerful evidence that variations in disease rates and life expectancies between neighborhoods are not--as widely assumed--the result of poor people making bad choices about diet and exercise….These powerful and poignant stories provide an important new lens that snaps the health care debate into sharp focus."

2010 – Best of the West Project Reporting award, Second Place for “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.”
2010 – National Institute for Health Care Management Health Care Journalism Award, Finalist for “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.”
2010 – National Association of Black Journalists' Salute to Excellence Award for “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.”
2010 – East Bay Press Club Series Award for “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.
2008 – San Francisco-Peninsula Press Club First Place, "Best News Story" for "Butt Out," a package on the science behind health effects of secondhand smoke and the expansion of smoking bans.
2008 – San Francisco-Peninsula Press Club Continuing Coverage Series Awardfor “Campus Shake-Up,” on seismic safety at K-12 schools.
2007 – East Bay Press Club First Place Series Award for "Teen Activists Size Up a Toxic Threat in East Palo Alto," "Has Hazardous Waste Recycler Worn Out Its Welcome?" and "Toxic Releases Forces Shelter-in-place."
Judges' comments: "What do you get when you mix an industrial recycler, increased cancer rates in a city overburdened with toxins, and a youth-led political campaign to oust the recycler? A great series worthy of much kudos for, among other notable attributes, managing to fairly portray the issue without bias."

2007 – East Bay Press Club Second Place Award, Feature Writing for "Driven to the Abyss," on the high rate of suicides among law enforcement officers.
2007 – San Francisco-Peninsula Press Club First Place Award, Series for "Shake-Up of Epic Proportions," a series commemorating the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
2006 – National Health Information Award, Bronze for book, “50 Simple Ways to Live a Longer Life: Everyday Techniques from the Forefront of Science.”
2005 – San Francisco Medical Society’s David Perlman Award for Excellence in Medical Journalism for four-story package on the ER overcrowding crisis published by ANG Newspapers.
Contributor to four-part series, ``Special Education: The Broken Promise,’’ published by ANG Newspapers. The series won the 2002 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, the 2001 California Journalism Award, the 2001 California Newspaper Publishers Association, 1st place, Investigative Reporting Award, the 2002 John Swett Award and the 2002 Price Child and Health Welfare Journalism Award.
2002 – American Heart Association’s C. Everett Koop Certificate of Distinction for coverage of cardiovascular
2001 – San Francisco Medical Society’s David Perlman Award for Excellence in Medical Journalism, Honorable Mention, for two-part series on Hepatitis C.

2012 – National Press Club Fellowship, “Obesity Issues: The Complete Skinny on Why We’re Getting Fatter and What We Can Do About It.”
2010 – EJN Climate Media Fellowship, for coverage of U.N. climate change conference in Cancun.
2010 – Wake Forest Institute Fellowship from Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina for “Regenerative Medicine Media Academy.”
2010 – California HealthCare Foundation Fellowship to attend the Association of Health Care Journalists conference in Chicago.
2008 – USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship.
2005 – USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship.
2004 – Casey Journalism Center Fellowship, “Covering Children’s Health.”

April 2018 – Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C. Part of five-person panel discussion on my newly-released book, “Twenty Years of Life” (Island Press), profiling regions challenging health inequities through community organizing.
Sept. 2013 – Connecticut Health Foundation, Hartford, CT. Keynote Speaker at Health Equity Conference for journalists, legislative leaders, health agencies and nonprofits.
Nov. 2011 – USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowship program on developing four-part newspaper series, “Shortened Lives: Where You Live Matters.”
July 2011 – USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowship program on developing “Shortened Lives.”
June 2011 – Stanford University, “Newsroom By the Bay for Students and Advisers,” a journalism “boot camp” for high school students on “Shortened Lives.”
March 2011 – UC Berkeley, “Introduction to Community Health and Human Development” class on “Shortened Lives.”
Oct. 2010 – UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, “Mass Communications” class on “Shortened Lives.”
July 2010 – USC Annenberg Health Journalism Fellowship program, on developing “Shortened Lives.”
Feb. 2009 – UC Berkeley, “Introduction to Community Health and Human Development” class on developing “Shortened Lives.”
Dec. 2009 – ABC7 Evening News on “Shortened Lives.”