RWJF Announces Call for Applications for Health & Society Scholars Programs (7/13/04)
The Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is designed to build the field of population health, which takes a broad approach to understanding why some groups of people are healthy and others are not. The goal of this interdisciplinary program is to improve health by training scholars to investigate rigorously the connections among biological, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health; and to develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge and interventions based upon integration of these determinants.
The program intends to produce leaders who will change the questions asked, the methods employed to analyze problems, and the range of solutions offered to improve the health of all Americans.
Up to eighteen scholars will be selected for the two-year appointments that will begin in the fall semester of 2005. Grants have been made to six participating universities (Columbia; Harvard; the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley; the University of Michigan; the University of Pennsylvania; and the University of Wisconsin) in accordance with RWJF's regular funding guidelines.
Deadline: October 15, 2004
For more information on program, go to http://healthandsocietyscholars.org
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