Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program

The Health & Society Scholars Program at the University of Michigan emphasizes the importance of linking a multi-level array of causal factors in order to understand and improve population health and eliminate health inequalities. The program brings together faculty from multiple disciplines, including Epidemiology, Sociology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Medicine, Genetics, History, Public Policy, Social Work, Health Management and Policy, Neurosciences, Biostatistics, Economics, Urban Planning, Political Science, Demography, and Ecology in order to create a truly interdisciplinary environment in which scholars can gain depth, breadth and a wide set of research opportunities in a broad set of issues relevant to population health.

The program is directed by Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and by Co-Directors James S. House, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research; Mark L. Wilson, Sc.M., Sc.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology , and Jeffrey Morenoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research. A Steering Committee composed of 15 faculty assists the Directors with multiple aspects of the program. In addition, a broad range of other faculty members throughout the campus are committed to providing research opportunities and mentoring.

2008/2009 RWJ Health & Society Scholars

 

Scholars are based at the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers throughout all of the University of Michigan campus. The program is designed to provide a fertile environment in which scholars and their mentors can fashion a highly individualized program of study and research. Multiple mentors, representing the scholar's home discipline, area of research involvement, and the interdisciplinary perspective of the program, will work with the scholar to provide a productive two-year experience.

For more information, please visit the RWJ Health & Society Scholars Program website, or the University of Michigan RWJ Health & Society Scholars program website.