Deadline for Academy Health’s 2008-2009 Health Policy Fellowship will creep up on you right after the holidays. So mark your calenders and apply!
January 7, 2008
Deadline for proposal submission
April 1, 2008
Announcement of selected a junior and senior level fellow
Early September 2008
Commencement of fellowships
Essential criteria for application
- Pry analysis and conclusions based on the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data sets.
- Propose relevance and usefulness to health policy or health service research (of course!)
Here is a photo list and associated credentials of past fellows. Guess who is the junior and who is the senior. Their project sound interesting
2002
To Examine How the Effects of Managed Care Market Penetration on Nurse Staffing in Hospitals Affect AMI Patient Mortality
2003
Organizational Determinants of Disparities in Hospital Care
Firms’ Demand for Health Benefit Generosity
2004
Effects of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on Children’s Health Insurance Coverage, Access to and Utilization of Health Services, and Health Outcomes
2005
Estimating the Effects of Health Insurance on Quality Adjusted Life Years
Depression Symptoms, Poverty, and Single-Parenthood: Effects of Maternal Factors on Children’s Use of Preventive Health Services
2006
Recipients of Work Disability: Who, When, and For How Long?
Trends of Integrating Clinical Preventive Services Into Primary Care
2007
Functional Decline Among the Elderly: The Impact of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act
Hospital Admissions from the Emergency Department: National Trends and Variation Between Hospitals
Good luck!
