2006
Scholars Program Receives $6.6 Million Award from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The UC Berkeley School of Public Health training site of the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program has received a five-year, $6.6 million award renewal by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to continue offering postdoctoral fellowships in the field of health policy research.
RWJF, based in Princeton, N.J., is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. This funding brings the foundation's total award to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health to over $18 million. This year the program was able to bring four scholars who received their PhDs from leading universities including Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, and Yale, to the Berkeley campus to engage in health policy research at the School of Public Health.
The Scholars in Health Policy Research Program is a national program supported by the RWJF with training sites at UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University. The goal of this unique program is to foster a new generation of creative thinkers and researchers whose work will inform future health policy discussions. Since 1992, 50 fellows have been trained at the Berkeley site, which is the product of collaboration between UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and UC San Francisco's Institute for Health and Aging and Institute for Health Policy Studies. Each year, the Berkeley training site selects outstanding recent doctoral graduates from the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology to be awarded two-year fellowships. Fellows are given offices on campus and are mentored by faculty members at both UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.