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<b>From: </b>Angela Frey <<a href="afrey@mit.edu">afrey@mit.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:00:59 -0400<br>
<b></b><b>Subject: </b>Call for Applications: The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars<br>
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Helvetica, Arial">From the Office of Foundation Relations (<a
href="http://web.mit.edu/ofr/">http://web.mit.edu/ofr/</a>)<br>
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call for applications for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's
Health & Society Scholars program.<br>
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Please forward to anyone who might be interested.<br>
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<b><i>NOTE: The Office of Foundation Relations would be pleased
to provide assistance to anyone applying for a grant from
this program. It would also be helpful for us to know if
someone has applied, whether or not we assist him/her.
Thank you!<br>
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<b>DEADLINE: September 21, 2012, 5:00 p.m., EST<br>
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</b>The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society
scholars program provides two years of support to postdoctoral
scholars at all stages of their careers to build the nation's
capacity for research and leadership to address the multiple
determinants of population health and contribute to policy
change. The program is based on the principle that progress in
the field of population health depends on multidisciplinary
collaboration and exchange. Its goal is to improve health by
training scholars to:<br>
1. investigate the connections among biological, genetic,
behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of
health; and<br>
2. develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge, interventions,
and policies that integrate and act on these determinants to
improve health.<br>
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Each year, the program enables up to 12 individuals who have
completed their doctoral training and produced outstanding work
to engage in an intensive two-year program at one of four
nationally prominent universities. The four universities in
this program were selected because of their outstanding talent
in specific disciplines; their commitment to interdisciplinary
collaboration; the breadth and depth of their research
opportunities; and the presence of faculty leaders in population
health. Participating universities include Columbia University,
Harvard University, the University of California, San Francisco
and Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin.<br>
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To be eligible scholars must:<br>
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<li><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Palatino">have
completed doctoral training by the time of entry into the
program (September 2013) in one of a variety of fields,
including, but not limited to, the behavioral and social
sciences, the biological and natural sciences, health
professions, public policy, public health, history,
demography, environmental sciences, urban planning,
engineering, and ethics;
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<li><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Palatino">have
significant research experience;
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<li><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Palatino">connect
their research interests to substantive population health
concerns; and
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<li><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Palatino">be U.S.
Citizens or Permanent Resident Green Card Holders at the
time of application and must not be receiving support from
other research fellowships/traineeships at the time they
begin the program.<br>
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Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's website for complete
program information and application procedures:
<a
href="http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21395">http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21395</a>.<br>
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Angela Frey<br>
Development Associate<br>
Office of Foundation Relations <br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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600 Memorial Drive<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
Phone: 617.253.3829<br>
Fax: 617.258.8800<br>
E-mail: a <<a href="mailto:afrey@mit.edu">mailto:afrey@mit.edu</a>>
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