The Kellogg Health Scholars Program is excited to announce the 2010-2012 Call for Applications and launch its new website.

The application is available at our new and improved website highlighting the Program, our scholars and their work: www.kellogghealthscholars.org

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.

The program consists of two tracks at eight different training sites. The Community track highlights community-based participatory research (CBPR), and relationships between academic health disparities research and public health practice in communities. The Multidisciplinary track highlights a multidisciplinary approach to studying the determinants of health inequalities and inequities. Both tracks emphasize the translation of research to policy.

Sixteen individuals will be selected for the 2010-2012 fellowship cycle - eight in the Community Track and eight in the Multidisciplinary Track.

Each fellowship will provide a stipend of $63,000 in the first year and $64,000 in the second year, and an annual research fund and other benefits.

"The program is unique among public health training programs...Scholars not only hone rigorous health disparities methods training, we also learn to translate our academic research into evidence based resources for use in ongoing community-based social justice efforts and for policy-makers seeking to develop evidence based policies to reduce health disparities." wrote an alumnus of the program.

The deadline for submitting an application is Wednesday, December 2, 2009 (5:00 p.m. Eastern). ONLY online applications are accepted. For more information on the Kellogg Health Scholars Program visit our new and improved website at www.kellogghealthscholars.org or for specific tracks, contact: Community Track - Barbara Watson, voice 734-936-1226 or email bjwatson@umich.edu. Multidisciplinary Track - Marie Briones-Jones, voice 202-387-2829 or email mbjones@cfah.org.