Scholarships & Fellowships
To aid the professional development of our membership, AcademyHealth offers continuing education credits and scholarships for our national meetings and fellowships enabling visiting scholars in health services research-related disciplines to collaborate on studies of interest to policymakers and the health services research community.
Scholarships
Fellowships
Application Deadline: January 15, 2010
Dartmouth College is offering a fellowship to attend the 2010 Summer Institute on Informed Patient Choice. The overall objective for the institute is--from an international perspective--to identify, discuss, and debate different practice and policy strategies that could accelerate or undermine the wide-spread implementation of high-quality Patients' Decision Support/Decision Aids (PtDS/PtDAs) in clinical care.
- Senior Mentor for Faculty Mentorship in Health Services Research in Singapore
National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine/Regenstrief Institute
Posted: 9/29/09
Application Deadline: Open
National University of Singapore and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine is searching for an experienced M.D. or Ph.D. investigator capable of serving as a senior mentor and career consultant to NUS faculty pursuing careers as health services researchers. The aim is to support faculty as they compete for newly designated HSR funding in Singapore. Priority domains for this funding include chronic disease management, elder care, health care transitions, patient safety, quality of care, prevention of obesity and diabetes. NUS will provide transportation, salary, and housing for an individual able to commit 6-9 months in residence in 2010. Working with the Regenstrief Institute and other organizations, she/he would identify other overseas faculty who may be interested in spending multiple shorter periods in Singapore to provide mentorship to specific HSR groups within NUS, facilitate grant writing, and publish.
Interested applicants should send a letter describing relevant training and experience and a curriculum vitae to Thomas Inui, Sc.M., M.D., Regenstrief Institute, c/o Lynnette Mirabent at e-mail lmirabent@regenstrief.org.
Deadline: Apr 14, 2010
The NIH announces a new funding opportunity to help promote diversity in the biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences research workforce. This initiative seeks to improve the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the training of predoctoral students from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented.
