Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society Scholars

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health & Society Scholars

The Health & Society Scholars program is designed to build the nation's capacity for research, leadership, and policy change to address the broad range of factors that affect health. The program is based on the principle that progress in the field of population health depends on collaboration and exchange among the social, behavioral, biological, and health sciences. Its goal is to improve health by training scholars to rigorously investigate the connections among genetic, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social determinants of health; and to develop, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge and interventions based on integration of these determinants. The program is intended to produce leaders who will change the questions asked, the methods employed to analyze problems, and the range of solutions designed to reduce population health disparities and improve the health of all Americans.

To be eligible, Scholars must have completed their doctoral training by the time of entry into the program (August or September 2008) 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, and ethics; have significant research experience; have clearly connected their research interests to substantive population health concerns; and be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories. Up to eighteen scholars will be selected for two-year appointments to begin in the fall of 2008. Scholars receive an annual stipend of $83,000 in year one and $86,000 in year two. Applications will be accepted online beginning July 13, 2007. Deadline for Applications: October 12, 2007. For additional information log onto: www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=19834