FW: Call for Applications: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

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*From: *Angela Frey <afrey at mit.edu>
*Date: *Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:00:59 -0400
***Subject: *Call for Applications: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's 
Health & Society Scholars

 From the Office of Foundation Relations (http://web.mit.edu/ofr/)
Below you will find information on a call for applications for the 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars program.

Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

*/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!
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*DEADLINE: September 21, 2012, 5:00 p.m., EST

*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:
1.  investigate the connections among biological, genetic, behavioral, 
environmental, economic, and social determinants of health; and
2.  develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge, interventions, and 
policies that integrate and act on these determinants to improve health.

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.

To be eligible scholars must:

  * 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;
  * have significant research experience;
  * connect their research interests to substantive population health
    concerns; and
  * 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.


Visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's website for complete program 
information and application procedures: 
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=21395.


Angela Frey
Development Associate
Office of Foundation Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

600 Memorial Drive
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