It was announced last
week that Michael Bloomberg has provided a $300 million gift to the Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health. The initial goals of the Bloomberg
“American Health Initiative” is to fund 15 MPH students working
in organizations in ways that can help solve the problems that are the focus of
the initiative, which include addiction and overdose, risks to adolescent
health, environmental challenges, obesity and the food system, and
violence. An additional criteria for the MPH candidates is that they are
ideally embedded in a partner organization or after completion of the MPH will
put their new skills to use for a year with a partner organization working to
improve health in communities across America
Our Center is in the
process of gathering a list of American Indian MPH candidates who are embedded
in promising “partner” organizations that we would like to submit to the School
by October 3, 2016. If you know of any potential American Indian
candidates that might be interested in this opportunity and is ready to apply
for the MPH program (applications for the first cohort are due December 1,
2016) we greatly appreciate if you can forward them this announcement and/or
send us their contact information.
We are very excited about
the goal to gather a strong, diverse cohort of trainees dedicated to the focal
areas of the initiative in the first phase and hope several American Indian
scholars will be included.
If you have any questions
or would like to discuss please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at abarlow@jhu.edu/ 410-955-6931 OR kspeakm1@jhu.edu/505-797-3305.
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