Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program
Description
The Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program provides professionals in health and aging with the experience and skills necessary to translate cutting-edge science and practical clinical experience into sound health policies that will positively impact healthcare for older Americans. The program has an interdisciplinary focus accepting physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, dieticians, healthcare administrators, epidemiologists, economists, and lawyers from academic and practice settings, spanning career stages from newly-minted PhDs to senior professors and community leaders into the fellowship. The program also offers a Behavioral Health track, which allows fellows to influence policy at the intersection of aging and mental health and substance use disorders, including late-life depression and suicide, interventions for behavioral manifestations of dementia, opioid use among the elderly, accelerated aging in people with serious mental illness, and other potential topics of interest to applicants.
Core Faculty
- Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Director
Eligibility
Applicants at all career stages are eligible to apply. However, this fellowship is primarily designed for individuals who have completed professional training or who have a significant career track in the health and aging fields, so individuals who are completing their undergraduate degree are not eligible immediately upon graduation. We encourage all those interested in the fellowship to pursue a position that will provide on-the-job training and/or graduate training prior to applying for this program.
The HAPF program has a broad interdisciplinary focus and past fellows have included physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, dieticians, healthcare administrators, epidemiologists, economists, and lawyers from academic and practice settings. Applicants must have a strong commitment to health and aging issues and should specify how the program would meet their particular career goals.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or its territories who have career plans that anticipate continued work in the U.S. after the fellowship period.
Application Process and Deadline
Deadline: March 15th (or the following Monday if the 15th falls on a weekend)
Please visit the application section of our website for information about the process and instructions: https://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/fellowship-application/apply-here/.
Contact
Harold Alan Pincus, MD
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-Director
Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 09
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 646.774.5400
Fax: 646.774.8443
Email:harold.pincus@nyspi.columbia.edu
Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation
National Program Office
hapfell@nyspi.columbia.edu
+1 646 774 8495