Title: Educational, Internship, and Training Opportunities
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Section/SPIG: Food and Nutrition
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Eight Universities Offer Maternal and Child Nutrition Traineeships
Eight universities offer education and training opportunities in maternal and child nutrition to registered dietitians seeking training in public health nutrition. The programs vary in their emphasis and length of study, but all provide support in the form of tuition assistance, fees, and a monthly stipend. The U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funds these traineeships. Application deadlines for the next academic year vary by program. Contact the individual university programs listed below for information, application deadlines and application materials.
University of Alabama-Birmingham
Department of Adolescent Medicine
1600 7th Ave South
Birmingham, AL 35233
Attn: Bonnie Spear, PhD, RD
E-mail: bspear@peds.uab.edu
Baylor College of Medicine
Section on Neonatology
Department of Pediatrics
6621 Fannin St, A 340, 1-3460
Houston, TX 77
Attn: Diane Anderson, PhD, RD
E-mail: dianea@bcm.imc.edu
University of California- Los Angeles
Children's Hospital (UCLA)
4650 Sunset Blvd., Mail stop #53
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Attn: Marion Taylor Baer, PhD, RD
E-mail: mbaer@usc.edu
Indiana University
Nutrition and Dietetics Program
702 Barnhill Drive, Room 3505
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5200
Attn: Karyl Rickard
E-mail: rickard@iumc.iupui.edu
University of Minnesota
Division of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Suite 300, WBOB
1300 S. 2nd St
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015
Attn: Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH, RD or Mary Story, PhD, RD
E-mail: stang@epivax.epi.umn.edu or story@epivax.epi.umn.edu
University of New Mexico
Education Office Building, Room 215
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1231
Attn: Karen Heller, PhD
E-mail: kheller@unm.edu
University of North Carolina
Department of Nutrition CB#7400
McGavran-Greenberg Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7400
Attn: Jan Dodds, EdD, RD
E-mail: jan_dodds@unc.edu
University of Tennessee
Department of Nutrition
1215 W. Cumberland Ave, 229JHB
Knoxville, TN 37996-1900
Attn: Betsy Haughton, EdD, RD
E-mail: haughton@utk.edu