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Health Policy@UCSF Fellowship Programs The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies administers the health policy training program at UCSF (HP@UCSF). The program trains individuals with diverse life experiences and professional backgrounds to use research and evidence to create positive change in health policy. We offer training for predoctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and individuals at mid-career. The program includes intensive mentoring and participatory seminars. HP@UCSF is supported by tuition, and most students and fellows receive a stipend while they are participating in the program. The Institute has limited internal funds to support trainees. Most trainees are supported by partner departments, programs, institutions, and investigators at UCSF and around the Bay Area. Postdoctoral Programs Postdoctoral trainees in HP@UCSF are supported by a variety of research and training grants. Regardless of source of support, all fellows participate in the same course of training (described below). The major funding sources for the training program include:
Multiple sources of funding and support ensure that the HP@UCSF program includes trainees from a diverse array of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives including clinical science and practice, public health and policy, and social and behavioral science. This diversity is the program’s hallmark. Predoctoral ProgramsHP@UCSF partners with the UCSF Pathways to Discovery in Health and Society as well as doctoral programs in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy to provide health policy training for appropriately prepared UCSF students. UCSF students interested in these opportunities should work with faculty or administrators in their program to learn more about how to become involved in HP@UCSF. Interested students should also consult the UCSF Pathway to Discovery in Health and Society website: http://medschool.ucsf.edu/pathways/health_society/index.aspx Individuals interested in mid-career opportunities via HP@UCSF should contact Ernestine Florence for additional information (contact information is below). The HP@UCSF program includes 2 major components: (1) career and research mentoring and (2) a curriculum of participatory seminars. Mentoring may be understood as: a process whereby an experienced, highly regarded, empathic person (the mentor) guides another individual (the mentee) in the development and examination of their own ideas, learning, and personal and professional development. The mentor, who often, but not necessarily, works in the same organization as the mentee, achieves this by listening and talking in confidence to the mentee. Each trainee in the HP@UCSF program has two (or more) faculty members serve in the mentoring role: the Mentor and the Fellowship Committee Advisor (FCA). The Mentor guides the fellow’s overall progress in research and professional activities during his or her fellowship. Each fellow is also assigned an FCA, a member of the Fellowship Committee, whose role is to help ensure a productive relationship between the fellow and Mentor as well as to provide additional guidance and support in the areas of career development and professional trajectory. Participatory SeminarsIHPS hosts a series of participatory seminars that are required of all trainees in the HP@UCSF program and frequently also attended by others. These seminars emphasize the insights gained through inter-disciplinary exchange as well as the power of learning by doing. The seminars seek to improve trainees' ability to analyze and communicate about health policy issues. They are facilitated by a multidisciplinary faculty and include basic concepts and approaches of those disciplines. Some seminars meet throughout the academic year (roughly Sept-June) while others meet only for an academic quarter. In 2008-09, seminars include:
Fellows in the program are expected to fully participate in the course of training, including working with mentors and attending and contributing to seminars. Full participation includes presenting at least one paper in the Writing Seminar and leading one WiP seminar each year. In addition, the Fellow and Mentor, in consultation with the FCA, develop an explicit written plan for all dimensions of the fellow’s progress and activities in the program including projects to be worked on or completed, attendance at professional or other relevant meetings, frequency of meetings or contact between Fellow and Mentor, and plans and progress in career development and post-fellowship professional trajectory. During their time in the program, fellows are encouraged to take advantage of professional networking opportunities; mentors and other faculty are expected to facilitate this important career-development activity. We encourage fellows to take advantage of resources throughout UCSF in order to ensure their own successful progression through the HP@UCSF program. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the HP program and the diverse career pathways and professional outcomes that characterize each fellowship cohort, no one model of post-fellowship placement is preferred. Some fellows undertake a nationwide search for an academic position while others move into positions at UCSF; fellows enter research or other positions in government at the local, state, national, and global level; some fellows take positions in industry, ranging from research appointments at non-profit institutes to management positions in large healthcare providers; some fellows seek opportunities that combine research or policy work with clinical practice while others use the fellowship as an opportunity to transition out of clinical work into a career in policy analysis, advocacy, or research. From the perspective of the program, all of these pathways are appropriate, legitimate, and successful. Having in our program fellows with such diverse backgrounds and trajectories models the transdisciplinary efforts characterizing effective health policy development and implementation. The following UCSF programs and departments serve as resources to fellows: Center for Health and CommunityThe Center for Health and Community at UCSF (CHC) was established to assess the challenges of the changing health care delivery environment and identify policies and interventions that will maximize the beneficial impact of changing health care delivery system. The Center is comprised of programs and more than 250 faculty members from all four UCSF Schools who have been at the cutting edge of health and policy-related research for many years. Programs and faculty include the basic social and behavioral scientists in epidemiology, health policy, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, bioethics, economics, and clinical research. Major areas of research interest include health care delivery systems, community health, methods and measurements, and health problems of key populations. Clinical Departments, Divisions, and ProgramsThe world-class clinical departments, divisions, and programs at UCSF constitute an invaluable resource for scholars in the program. In recent years, HP scholars have benefited from IHPS relationships with units located throughout UCSF including: the departments of clinical pharmacy, family and community medicine, medicine, orthopedic surgery, and surgery; the divisions of general internal medicine (in the department of medicine), general pediatrics (in the department of pediatrics), and hematology and oncology (in the department of medicine); programs at the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF Hospitals and Clinics, the San Francisco General Hospital and Medical Center, the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. Fellows in the program interact with clinical units in multiple ways. Clinician-scientists affiliated with clinical programs work with HP fellows as collaborators and mentors; fellows participate in research projects being undertaken in clinical units; fellows develop relationships with clinical department, division, or programs in order to conduct their own independent research; and fellows provide clinical services and training. Related Training Programs at UCSFThe HP@UCSF program is one of several UCSF post-doctoral training programs that addresses issues related to policy, services, society, and disparities. Other programs at UCSF include the Kellogg Foundation Health Disparities Scholars at the UCSF Center on Social Disparities in Health; post-doctoral training at the Center for Health and Community; the General Internal Medicine Clinical Research Fellowship in the Division of General Internal Medicine; the Training Program in the Division of General Pediatrics; and the Tobacco Control Policy and Science Fellowship at the Center for Tobacco Control Research, Education and Training. IHPS participates in two health-policy related post-doctoral training programs sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Scholars in Health Policy Research Program and Health and Society Scholars Program. These programs provide multi-departmental and multidisciplinary postdoctoral training in health and health policy research for scholars with degrees and backgrounds in a wide variety of disciplines. The Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (TAPS) is a postdoctoral research training program offered at the University of California, San Francisco in the areas of epidemiology, behavioral medicine, and health policy. Application and Contact Information Applications to the HP at UCSF training program are accepted on a rolling basis. The application, including what materials are required and how to apply, is available to download here. For any questions or concerns, please contact: Ernestine Florence Phone: (415) 476-4924, Fax: (415) 476-0705,
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