PhD Program at Vanderbilt University

This is another posting of interest for recent graduates:

The mission of the RWJF CHP is to provide leadership in health policy education, research, and reform on national, state, and local levels that is congruent with the mission of Meharry Medical College to improve the health and healthcare of minority and underserved communities.

Goals:
 Create leadership at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University via education and training who are committed to participating in health policy education, research, and reform specific to improving the health and healthcare of minority and underserved communities on national, state, and local levels.
 Conduct research that examines, illuminates, and disseminates the disparities in health that disproportionately impact minority and underserved communities on national, state, and local levels and the related health policies that may mitigate or perpetuate these health disparities.
 Develop policy expertise relative to health disparate substantive areas regarding
healthcare planning, healthcare resource allocation, health maintenance, health
promotion, and health programs, interventions, and strategies specific to minority and underserved communities on national, state, and local levels in order to influence reform where appropriate.

The RWJF Health Policy Fellows Program at the RWJF CHP at Meharry Medical College:
Vanderbilt University, in collaboration with Meharry Medical College, will accept qualified, new Ph.D. students in the Departments of Economics, Political Science, and Sociology who have educational and research interests that include health and health policy. The students will earn a doctorate from Vanderbilt University while participating in additional coursework, seminars, and research activities at Meharry Medical College, the nation’s oldest historically black medical school. Please see www.mmc.edu and www.vanderbilt.edu for more institutional information.

The new Ph.D. students will receive a generous five-year funding package which includes:
 full-tuition waiver;
 department-based stipend of $17,500 per academic year with cost-of-living increase;
 supplemental participation stipend of $10,000 per academic year;
 summer funding of $4,500 per summer period; and,
 health insurance.
The deadline for applications for admission in Fall Semester 2011 is January 15, 2011.
All application materials should be submitted online at:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/gradschool/applications_and_information/index.php.
Please mention in the application "statement of interest" that you wish to be considered for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program at Meharry Medical College.