MCH Traineeships
Three federally funded long term nutrition traineeships are available to advanced Nutritional Sciences graduate students. Traineeships
require that students be Registered Dietitians. Students from the MS, MPH, or PhD tracks are welcome to apply. Stipends provided by funds from
the Maternal Child Health Bureau of the Health Care Resources Administration are provided for nine months. Both traineeships offer
interdisciplinary leadership training with an emphasis on nutrition.
The Pediatric Pulmonary Center (PPC) offers public health & leadership training with an interdisciplinary approach that includes health
professionals from medicine, nursing, nutrition, social work, and nutrition. The center's focus is on training about systems of care for pediatric
pulmonary diseases as a model of meeting needs of children with special health care needs and their families. Former nutrition trainees have
completed research in the areas of asthma & obesity, growth of low birthweight infants with chronic lung disease after discharge, and growth
of infants and children who require home ventilatory support. For more information visit the web page link above or contact Joan Zerzan in UWMC
Food and Nutrition Services at (206) 598-6264.
One traineeship each year is provided to a Registered Dietitian to prepare the trainee for leadership roles in nutrition education, service, research,
policy and advocacy for mothers, families, children and youth. to focus on public health nutrition and maternal and child health. This traineeship is
offered by a collaboration of western universities that includes UCLA, USC, Oregon Health and Sciences University and Colorado State University. Trainees
complete a leadership project and interact with leaders in MCH public health nutrition from the western states. For more information visit the web page
link above or contact Donna Johnson in Nutritional Sciences at 206) 685-1068.
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