If you're an African, European or U.S. journalist interested in winning an international reporting trip worth $10,000, bring your questions to our live chat about ICFJ’s story contest for the best coverage of infectious diseases.

Join us Thursday, June 27, at 10 a.m. EDT/2 p.m. UTC for a one-hour live chat with ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowships program directors Elisa Tinsley and Jerelyn Eddings. They will guide you through the process of submitting stories and proposals to meet the August 1 contest deadline.

From tips on how to pack all the proposal information into a 300-word submission to making sure your story ideas are on the right track, Tinsley and Eddings are ready to answer all of your questions and help you write a proposal that stands out from the pack.

Tinsley has directed the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellowships since 2007. Before that, she spent more than a decade as world editor at USA TODAY, where she helped reporters at the largest U.S. newspaper hone their story ideas. Eddings oversees ICFJ’s Knight Fellowships in Africa. Before joining ICFJ, she directed the Freedom Forum’s Africa media center in Johannesburg. She was also a foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun in Africa, Atlanta bureau chief and chief congressional correspondent for U.S. News & World Report.

Join the chat here or follow along on Twitter with hashtag #icfjhealth.