Health and Aging Policy Fellowships: Application deadline April 15

The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is a unique opportunity forprofessionals in health and aging to receive the experience and skillsnecessary to make a positive contribution to the development andimplementation of health policies that affect older Americans.

The nine-to-12-month Program offers fellows the opportunityto participate in a residential track or a non-residential track. Theresidential track allows fellows to participate in the policymakingprocess on either the Federal or state level as legislative assistantsin Congress, professional staff members in executive agencies or policyorganizations. The non-residential track allows fellows to work on apolicy project and brief placement(s) throughout the year at relevantsites. Core program components focused on career development andprofessional enrichment are provided for fellows in both tracks.Fellows also have the opportunity to apply for second-year funding tocontinue components of their fellowship experience/project either attheir placement sites, at the state/local levels, or withnon-governmental organizations.

We aredelighted to announce our partnership with the John Heinz SenateFellowship in Issues of the Aging. Our programs have combined to createthe joint John Heinz/Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. Each year, oneindividual will be designated the John Heinz/Health and Aging PolicyFellow. (For more information about the John Heinz Senate Fellowshipplease visit www.heinzfamily.org/programs/senatefellowship.html.)

We are equally delighted to announce our partnershipwith the Healthy Aging Porgram at the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC). For the 2010-2011 fellowship year, the CDC issponsoring a non-residential Health and Aging Policy Fellow. (For moreinformation, please see this website under “About the Fellowship -Partnerships” at www.healthandagingpolicy.org/about/congressional_fellow.html.)

The Health and Aging Policy Fellows program is directed by HaroldAlan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (incollaboration with the American Political Science AssociationCongressional Fellowship Program) and made possible by the generoussupport of The Atlantic Philanthropies.