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 if we are to understand and improve population health and eliminate the great health divides within our society. By bringing together faculty in Social Epidemiology, Sociology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Medicine, History, Public Policy, Social Work, Health Management and Policy, Neurosciences, Neuroendocrinology, Biostatistics, Biology, Economics, Genetics, Urban Planning, Political Science, Demography, Education, Statistics, and Ecology, we have created an environment in which independent scholars can gain depth, breadth, and a wide set of research opportunities in which to understand the broad determinants of individual and population health.

Leading this program is George A. Kaplan, Ph.D., Director, and Thomas Francis Collegiate Professor of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health; and two co-directors: Ana V. Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology; James S. House, Ph.D., Angus Campbell Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Professor of Public Policy, Research Professor in the Social Environment and Health Program at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, Research Professor of Epidemiology, and Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology.

2008/2009 RWJ Health & Society Scholars

 

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. Scholars will have the opportunity to pursue an active research program and participate in a series of intensive seminars, including Population Health and its Determinants, Research Methods in Population Health, Leadership and Career Development in Population Health, and other areas. Multiple mentors, representing the scholars 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.