Funding Opportunities
PFIZER GRANTS - http://www.promisingminds.com/
Deadline: varies
On this Web site, you will find information about 26 grants and awards programs which provide financial support for fellows, scholars, and host institutions in a wide range of therapeutic areas, health literacy topics, and public health issues. Recipients of these nationally competitive MAP grants are selected by independent academic advisory boards made up of leaders in each program’s field.
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION
Health & Society Scholars Program - http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/
Application Deadline: Deadline: October
15, 2005
An initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program is
designed to build the United States' capacity for research,
leadership, and action to address the broad range of factors that
affect health. principle that progress in the field of population
health depends on collaboration and exchange among the social,
behavioral and health sciences, is to improve health by training
scholars to 1) rigorously investigate the connections among
biological, behavioral, environmental, economic, and social
determinants of health; and 2) 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 offered to reduce population
health disparities and improve the health of all Americans. Up to
eighteen scholars will be selected for two-year appointments that
will begin in the fall semester of 2006. Scholars will receive an
annual stipend of $77,000 in year one and $80,000 in year two.
Individuals must apply online through the program's Web
site. See the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Web site for complete
program information and application procedures, http://www.rwjf.org/applications/program/cfp.jsp?ID=19251
For more listings go to www.sgim.org/funding.cfm.