As I’ve become acquainted with Healthy NewsWorks, I’ve learned that the program shares Quest Diagnostics’ deep commitment to helping children, families, and communities to be strong and well. This commitment is at the heart of Quest Diagnostics’ decision to join with Healthy NewsWorks as a Community Wellness Partner in the Philadelphia area. At Quest, our more than 40,000 people around the world are dedicated to empowering better health with diagnostics insights. We know we do that best when we get involved with our communities. The path to sound health is about understanding how our bodies work and recognizing that healthy choices—what we eat, how active we are, getting to our doctors for our annual check- ups—can help us stay well and help prevent, detect, and fight disease. I’ve seen firsthand how the staff and teacher partners of Healthy NewsWorks invest deeply in promoting such health literacy. I’ve been inspired by how the program helps these talented young Foreword A message from our Community Wellness Partner 1 journalists become advocates for healthy lifestyles. Importantly, they also become critical thinkers and skilled writers and communicators. These young journalists are more than students and ambassadors of wellness; they are our next generation of leaders learning skills for success in the world, and invaluable lessons about the power each of them has to be a positive force within it. At Quest, we honor and celebrate all the people involved in Healthy NewsWorks—whether you’re a veteran health journalist like Marian Uhlman, innovating for social good and teaching her craft; a teacher like Katie Sortino at Gotwals Elementary School, braving the blender to showcase healthy recipes; or part of the rigorously prepared press corps of third and fourth graders on the staff of the Healthy Comet newspaper at Cole Manor Elementary School. Your efforts are helping our communities understand what keeps us healthy and prompting all of us to take care of ourselves. We’re proud of the journalists in these pages and grateful to those who invest in their well-being. We look forward to the impact they will have on our communities today and our world tomorrow. —By Barb Short Ms. Short is Executive Director of the Quest Diagnostics Foundation and Quest’s Director of Global Inclusion & Corporate Social Responsibility.