Kellogg Health Scholars Program
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KHSP, a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, 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 KHSP, scholars develop as leaders with expertise to add to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities. The program consists of two tracks at eight training sites. The Community Track highlights community-based participatory research and relationships between academe, community and public health practice. The Multidisciplinary Track highlights a multi-disciplinary approach to studying the social determinants of health disparities.
Scholars will pursue their research at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. KHSP, begun in 2005, will run through 2012, with an initial grant of $3.5 million in 2005 and a supplemental grant of $10 million in 2007 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. For further information on the program and its Call for Applications, visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org.
The program's director, Barbara Kivimae Krimgold can be reached by contacting the Center for Advancing Health. Her contact information is listed below:
For more information on the Kellogg Health Scholars Program (KHSP), click here to visit the KHSP website.Barbara Krimgold
Director, Kellogg Health Scholars National Program Office
Center for Advancing Health
bkrimgold@cfah.org
www.cfah.org
www.kellogghealthscholars.org
202-387-2829
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