Title: Educational, Employment, Training, and Funding Opportunities
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Fellowships
- Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice
The Fellowship provides a unique opportunity to honor the memory of the late Senator Paul D. Wellstone by fostering the advancement of social justice through participation in health care advocacy work that focuses on the unique challenges facing many communities of color. The goals of the Wellstone Fellowship Program are three-fold:
1. To address disparities in access to health care; 2. To inspire Wellstone Fellows to continue to work for social justice throughout their lives; and 3. To increase the number and racial and ethnic diversity of up-and-coming social justice advocates and leaders.
The Wellstone Fellowship is a year-long, full-time, salaried position. The term for the next Fellow will begin in August 2005. The Fellow will be engaged in health care advocacy work in Families USA's office in Washington, D.C., where he or she will learn about Medicare, Medicaid, efforts to achieve universal coverage, and other important health policy issues. Specifically, the fellow will be engaged in Families USA's outreach to and mobilization of communities of color. At the same time, the Wellstone Fellow will learn about conducting health care campaigns through communication and collaboration with our network of state grassroots advocates and organizations.
For more information contact Melissa Rosenblatt at <wellstonefellowship@familiesusa.org>.
Employment
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Associate or Full Professor
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
UCLA Department of Family Medicine
The Department of Family Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is seeking applicants for a full-time tenured faculty position with research expertise in health promotion and disease prevention/community health at the associate or full professor level. Applicants possessing a doctoral degree in Medicine, Nursing, Public Health or other disciplines with a health expertise will be considered.
Applications should include a cover letter, CV and contact information for three references to: Marilynn VanderHule
Academic Personnel Manager
UCLA Department of Family Medicine
Box 951683
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1683.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Department of Foods and Nutrition
Assistant or Associate Professor
Nine-Month Position, Tenure Track
Qualifications: PhD in human nutrition, public health nutrition or nutritional epidemiology required; postdoctoral training and public health nutrition experience preferred. Candidate must qualify for membership in the graduate faculty.
Responsibilities: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses; develop a nationally recognized and extramurally funded research program in human nutrition, public health nutrition or nutritional epidemiology; advise undergraduate and graduate students; participate in departmental and collegiate governance; and serve in professional organizations.
Application Procedure: Applicants must submit their curriculum vitae and a letter expressing interest in the position with names of four referees to:
Dr. Rick Lewis
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Foods and Nutrition
Dawson Hall
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-3632
(706) 542-4901
e-mail: rlewis@fcs.uga.edu.
All applications will be held in confidence until the candidates for interviews are selected.
Closing Date: Dec. 15, 2004; Beginning Date: Aug. 16, 2005.
Funding
- PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN PRIMARY CARE SETTINGS
<http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HD-04-020.html>
LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: Oct. 25, 2004
APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: Nov. 23, 2004
- OBESITY AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
<http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-04-003.html>
LETTER OF INTENT RECEIPT DATE: Nov. 17 A
PPLICATION RECEIPT DATE: Dec. 17