The Kellogg Health Scholars Program, a two-year post-doctoral program, is accepting applications for its 2009-2011 cohort. The application deadline is Wednesday, December 3, 2008 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). ONLY online applications are accepted. To access the online application, please visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org.
Through this program, scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities.
The program consists of two tracks and offers fellowships at eight training sites. The Community Track highlights community-based participatory research and relationships between academe, community and public health practice. The Multidisciplinary Track highlights a multidisciplinary approach to studying the social determinants of health disparities.
Community Track scholars will pursue their fellowships at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Multidisciplinary Track scholars will pursue their fellowships at Harvard University, the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Nine individuals will be selected for the 2009-2011 fellowship cycle – five in the Community Track and four in the Multidisciplinary Track. Each fellowship will provide a stipend of $62,000 in the first year and $63,000 in the second year, and an annual research fund and other benefits.
For more information on the Kellogg Health Scholars Program and the 2009 Call for Applications, visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org. For specific tracks, contact:
Community Track – Saundra Bailey, voice 734-647-3065, fax: 734-936-0927 or email saundrab@umich.edu
Multidisciplinary Track – Marie Briones-Jones, voice 202-387-2829, fax 202-387-2857 or email mbjones@cfah.org
