Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships

Below is a listing of announcements for awards, fellowships and scholarships that we believe would be of interest to our members and other stakeholders. Announcements are listed by deadline and are updated every two weeks. Recent announcements are indicated with a .

Kellogg Health Scholars Program - Deadline: December 2, 2009 - The Kellogg Health Scholars Program develops new leadership in the effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities and to secure equal access to the conditions and services essential for achieving healthy communities. Through this two-year post doctoral fellowship program, scholars gain competence to undertake research adding to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and about interventions to reduce those disparities; capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy; and skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities. For more information on the Kellogg Health Scholars Program visit our new and improved website at www.kellogghealthscholars.org.

Nizar N. Oweida, MD, FACS, Scholarship Opportunity - Deadline: December 15, 2009 - The Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons announces the availability of a scholarship for young rural surgeons, the Nizar N. Oweida, MD, FACS, Scholarship of the American College of Surgeons. The Oweida Scholarship provides an award of $5,000 to subsidize the participation of a young rural-based Fellow or Associate Fellow in attendance at the annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons. The Oweida Scholarship is available to a member of the American College of Surgeons in any of the surgical specialties who meets the following requirements: serves a rural community in the U.S. or Canada; is a Fellow or Associate Fellow in good standing; and is under 45 years of age on the date the application is filed. For complete information on the scholarship, visit: http://www.facs.org/memberservices/oweida.html.

Biotone Edu-Partner Community Outreach Award Program - Deadline: December 31, 2009 - Biotone, a manufacturer of professional massage and spa products, has announced the launch of its 2009 Edu-Partner Community Outreach Award Program. The Community Outreach Award program is designed to reward massage therapy schools for helping their community, providing students with unique, hands-on training, and advancing public awareness of the healing value of massage by conducting free massage-related services and activities in their communities. The program will award grants of $2,500 each to two massage schools. For more information, visit: http://www.biotone.com/?s=awards2.

NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship - Deadline: January 4, 2010 - The aim of the fellowship is to foster collaboration between the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) staff and visiting scholars on a wide range of topics of mutual concern. The fellowship allows visiting scholars to conduct new and innovative analyses and participate in developmental and health policy activities related to the design and content of future NCHS surveys. All applicants must demonstrate training and/or experience in health services research and its methodology, especially quantitative data analysis, reflecting disciplines such as public health, public administration, health care administration, sociology, nutrition, health economics, health statistics, or the health professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, dentistry, etc.). Student applicants must be doctoral students who have completed course work and be at the dissertation phase of their program. Doctoral students will work on their dissertation research project. By the end of the fellowship, each student will also prepare a report on the approach and methodology they used for his or her project and experience using NCHS data systems. Doctoral students are strongly encouraged to seek opportunities to work with NCHS staff on collaborative projects of mutual interest. For more information, please visit www.academyhealth.org/nchs.

Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice - Deadline: February 5, 2010 - The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice is designed to foster the advancement of social justice through participation in health care advocacy work that focuses on the unique challenges facing many communities of color. Through this fellowship, Families USA hopes to expand the pool of talented social justice advocates from underrepresented economic, racial and ethnic minority groups, including black/African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian and Pacific Islander communities. For more information, please visit http://www.raconline.org/funding/funding_details.php?funding_id=706

Cervical Spine Research Society Traveling Fellowship - Deadline: April 15, 2010 - The CSRS is sponsoring a Traveling Fellowship for clinician-scientists who have completed a year or more of spine fellowship training. This program is designed to expose the spine surgeon to other institutions and individuals with expertise in the cervical spine to broaden their experience and help foster his or her academic career. For additional information please contact the program at: csrs@aaos.org.

SPHERU Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Social Determinants of Early Childhood Development and Children's Health - Deadline: Open until filled- We are now accepting application for a two year postdoctoral fellowship position with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU, www.spheru.ca), at its University of Saskatchewan location in Saskatoon. SPHERU's mission is the promotion of health equity by understanding and addressing population health disparities through policy-relevant and engaged research. We fulfill this mission by actively involving communities, non-governmental organizations, and policy and decision-makers in both the research enterprise itself, and in the communication of research results. This position is within the Healthy Children theme in SPHERU, led by Dr. Nazeem Muhajarine. We are seeking a highly motivated candidate with a PhD and/or MD whose postdoctoral program will outline research that is consistent with advancing SPHERU's mission. Academic qualification: PhD and/or MD completion. For applicants with MD, additional research training (MSc or PhD) is preferred. Term: Commencing immediately, and ending in August 31, 2011. Up to $45,000 year, for two years. For more information please visit: http://www.spheru.ca/spheru-1/employment-opportunities.

Health Trust Grants for Silicon Valley High Schools to Improve Student Health - Deadline: Various - Health Trust, a nonprofit organization that works to advance health and wellness in the Silicon Valley community, has announced the availability of small grants and awards to Silicon Valley high schools to support student-driven, campus-based projects that promote a healthier school community. Three types of grants and awards are available: Student Project Mini Grants, Healthy School Awards and Student Wellness Champion Awards. For more information visit: http://www.healthtrust.org/volunteer/wellness.php.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Social and Community Dimensions of Cancer Prevention and Control - Deadline: Open - New post-doctoral research fellowship opportunities are available within the newly-organized Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at the Albert Einstein Cancer Center. The training program emphasizes innovation in rigorous community-based participatory research methods, with a major emphasis on overcoming health disparities experienced by lower income, minority and disenfranchised populations. The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program brings together faculty across many of the College's academic and clinical departments with projects underway in six thematic areas: enhanced support for cancer patients, survivors and family members; tobacco cessation, cancer prevention and early detection in clinical practice; primary and secondary prevention with adolescents; nutrition and cancer; cancer in the broader context of chronic disease prevention and management; and dissemination of interventions to community organizations and settings of care. In addition, the Center is collaborating with other Cancer Center programs to promote community understanding of and improved access to cancer clinical trials. Core program faculty members provide expertise in community, clinical, health, and social psychology and in sociology. Fellows will have opportunities to work with faculty mentors on intervention research projects in a close knit collaborative environment. If you would like to discuss this post-doctoral fellowship, please contact Bruce Rapkin, Ph.D., Director of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, c/o Dorothy Benson (dbenson@aecom.yu.edu).

Global Impact Corps Unite for Site Fellowship - Deadline: Ongoing - Unite For Sight engage, inspire, and train high-impact volunteers who support and assist eye clinics globally. Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. All volunteers participating in Unite For Sight's international programs are Global Impact Fellows. The program's goal is to build entrepreneurial leaders who gain skills in social change through Unite For Sight's immersive global health experience. Through hands-on, structured training, they instill in Global Impact Fellows a thorough understanding of sustainable best practice principles in volunteerism, global health, and international development. Global Impact Fellows gain skills and are nurtured to become new leaders in global health. For more information, visit: http://www.uniteforsight.org/volunteer-abroad

College Unbound Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships -Deadline: Open - College Unbound is a student-centered higher-education program in which students work with college faculty and community professionals in an active learning environment. The College Unbound Program is making a commitment to fund up to two doctoral or post-doctoral teaching fellowships each year. This fellowship program will focus on increasing the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by attracting top-ranked junior scholars who have shown a continual commitment to communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level. The Teaching Fellows program will hire one or two graduates each year, each within 6 years of the completion of their degree, who will make a 3-year commitment to teaching and advising a cohort of college students in their curriculum plan. Already armed with a degree and a sense of what traditional academia entails, these Fellows should be able to guide their students through experiments in methodology, individualized explorations, and group research projects examining issues in local and global contexts. The position is comparable to a full-time visiting position, including benefits and full-time faculty status. Salary: $30,000 per year, plus benefits. Paid on a 12-month plan. For questions, please contact Adam Bush at abush@bigpicture.org

Summer Internships on Aging Available - Deadline: Open - DOROT, a non-profit organization who seeks to enhance the lives of Jewish and other elderly, has summer internships available for college students. DOROT interns will be exposed to the complex issues of aging, and gain experience in all aspects of DOROT's operations. Among many activities interns may: visit with seniors in their homes, escort seniors to cultural events, doctor appointments or shopping, tutor seniors in computer use, and assist professional staff in the DOROT office with the planning and execution of programs. DOROT is a non-profit organization on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, who seeks to enhance the lives of Jewish and other elderly through a dynamic partnership of volunteers, professionals, and elders; and to foster mutually beneficial interaction between the generations. To learn more, visit: www.dorotusa.org

2009 Summer Research Internship on Poverty and Adolescent Risk - Deadline: Open - The College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama is offering a summer research internship for students interested in studying neighborhood poverty and its impact on adolescent behavior. Students who participate in the internship will conduct field research as part of a longitudinal study of poverty and adolescent risk, which we have been conducting since 1998. The study has been funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute for Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and it addresses challenges that young people face as they grow up in impoverished neighborhoods, including violence, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior, the development of self-esteem and a sense of the future, and family dynamics. We are accepting applications from students who would like to participate in this unique learning experience. Interns, who may be either undergraduate or graduate students, will be required to live in Mobile, Alabama between May 18, 2009 and July 31, 2009. For more information, please visit: http://www.ches.ua.edu/news/2009_summer_internship.htm

Paid NARCH American Indian or Alaska Native Summer Graduate Student Internship - Deadline: Open - The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board is seeking three graduate student interns who are pursing health related research careers. Depending on education, salary ranges from $12.50 to $18.50/hour. The summer interns are full-time, temporary Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) employees--not eligible for annual, sick, or vacation leave, or other board fringe benefits. They are paid for time worked and begin around the first part of June for two months. They are strongly encouraged to attend the Summer Research Training Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives which is here in Portland from June 15-July 2, 2009. Additionally, they work on a health research project during the summer and submit a report at the end of their employment. For more information, contact: Luella Azule, (Yakama Nation/Umatilla), Project Coordinator, Northwest Native American Research Center for Health at lazule@npaihb.org or 503-228-4185 x 275.

CBPR fellowship training opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care and Community-based Participatory Research - Deadline: Open -The Medical College of Wisconsin is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care and Community-based Participatory Research. Fellows gain experience working in underserved communities and learn how community organizations impact the lives of underserved urban and rural residents. They participate in externally-funded community-based participatory research projects, federally supported curriculum development projects, and in the education of medical students and residents. Qualifications: An MD or DO degree, board eligibility/ certification in Family Medicine, Pediatrics or Internal Medicine, eligibility for licensure to practice medicine in the state of Wisconsin, and a commitment to a career in research to improve primary care access and quality, and to reduce health disparities; or an earned doctorate in sociology, urban studies, health psychology, health education, social work, nursing, public health, health services research, or other relevant field. For more information: http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=7236

Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders-Deadline: Open-Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders is a collaborative initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Center for Creative Leadership. The initiative aims to enhance the leadership capacity of community-based nonprofit health organizations serving vulnerable populations. RWJF is committed to leadership development and improving the health of all Americans, particularly those in the most vulnerable communities-where people are often economically disadvantaged and have limited educational opportunities and inadequate access to health services. Ladder to Leadership focuses on developing critical leadership competencies for 270 early- to mid-career professionals through an innovative, 16-month leadership development curriculum. The program will be delivered in nine priority communities on a staggered schedule over the next four years. Each phase of the three-part curriculum includes a mixture of face-to-face training sessions, individualized executive coaching and mentoring, and team project work-all anchored within the context of the communities in which these leaders live and work to maximize the application and impact of the program concepts. For the full Call for Proposals visit: http://www.rwjf.org/files/applications/cfp/cfp_L2L2008.pdf.

Skoll Foundation's Social Entrepreneurship Awards - Deadline: Open-The Skoll Foundation's mission is "to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs." The foundation's Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional responsibility, economic and social equity, and peace and security. Within these issues, the foundation is particularly interested in applications from social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that threaten the survival of humanity -- climate change, nuclear proliferation, global pandemics, conflict in the Middle East, and water scarcity. For more information visit: http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15014147/skollfdn

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Offers Support for Patient Needs - Deadline: TBA-The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation is accepting applications from individuals with multiple sclerosis across the United States for the Brighter Tomorrow grant program. The goal of the grant is to provide individuals with MS with goods or services (valued at up to $1,000 per recipient) to improve their quality of life by enhancing safety, self-sufficiency, comfort, or well-being. Recipients of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation's Brighter Tomorrow grant have received car repairs, ramps, wheelchairs, walkers, eyeglasses, computers, appliances, televisions, furniture, therapeutic equipment, hobby supplies, retreats, and various home modifications. To qualify, a person must be 18 years of age or older and diagnosed with MS, or the parent of a minor child diagnosed with MS, and be a permanent U.S. resident. They must not have any other means of fulfilling the need they express. Applicants are asked to provide basic personal and financial nformation, and to write a brief essay of 100 words or less to describe how the grant would help them have A Brighter Tomorrow. Applications for the next program cycle will be accepted as of July 1, 2008. RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15014153/msfocus

Research Fellowship on Health Inequities - Deadline: Rolling-Flinders University is advertising a Research Fellow position attached to the Australian Health Inequities Program. The appointee will work directly with Prof Fran Baum on a research program on health inequities. The person appointed will be able to join existing projects and spend time on their own interests. Fran Baum is particularly interested in a candidate who would like to consider comparative studies of factors driving inequities between different countries. For more information, contact Fran Baum Professor and Head, Department of Public Health
Flinders University at Fran.Baum@flinders.edu.au.

CBPR Postdoctoral Fellowship with Montana State University and Crow Nation - Deadline: Rolling-Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship working with a well-established community-based participatory research project, Messengers for Health on the Aps'alooke Reservation. Members of the Aps'alooke (Crow) Nation and faculty and students at Montana State University (MSU) have been working together since 1996. This fellowship provides an opportunity to spend up to two years engaged in action-based research including a policy-level intervention with the Indian Health Service Crow Service Unit and a community-level intervention in women's cancer prevention. Contact Suzanne Christopher for more information at suzanne@montana.edu.

Call for Applications: Cancer Research Training Award Fellowship- Deadline: Not Specified - The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the largest institute at the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to invite applications from qualified candidates for a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) fellowship. This fellowship provides an outstanding opportunity for an individual with strong interest in tobacco control, behavioral research, public health, health education, and cancer control to gain experience working in the communications field within a program at the NCI. The CRTA appointment is a one-year full-time fellowship award with the Tobacco Control Research Branch, within the Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the NCI at its Rockville, MD office. Recruitment for this position is currently open and will end when it is filled. For more information please contact Janice O'Connor at oconnorj@mail.nih.gov.

Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program – Deadline: Various – These fellowships provide opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. http://www.fordfound.org/news/more/11272000ifp/index.cfm

Google Grants: In-Kind Advertising Services to Nonprofits – Deadline: Open – The Google Grants program supports organizations that share the company's philosophy of community service worldwide in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts. Designed for 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program that harnesses the power of Google's flagship advertising product, Google AdWords, to non-profits seeking to inform and engage their constituents online.
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10003588/google

Call for Public Policy Nursing Student Interns – Deadline: ongoing – The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Public Policy Internship offers student nurses the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in the process of policy formation. Students are placed with various AACN staff with experience in health policy, quality/patient safety, nursing education, geriatric nursing, or end of life care. Internships are designed in collaboration with each student based on her or his goals and objectives. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Government/GAInternship.htm

Correctional Health Fellowship - Deadline: TBA - The University of Massachusetts (UM) Correctional Health Program at the UM Medical School provides health care for prisoners at all of the state Department of Correction facilities. The provision of clinical services by an academic institution creates an ideal learning environment within the correctional facilities and provides the basis for fellowship opportunities in correctional health that are strengthened through a close connection with the school's preventive medicine residency. The two-year Correctional Health Fellowship includes course work to obtain a master's of public health degree, offered through the Worcester campus of the School of Public Health at UM Amherst. Candidates for the fellowship must have completed an accredited residency training program in internal or family medicine in the U.S. and be interested in pursuing a career in correctional health. Application packets are available from Terry Perry (508.856.6163; PerryT@ummhc.org).