Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars Program (HPRS) is a four-year national leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from nonclinical, academic disciplines with a policy focus—students who are committed to ensuring their research is aligned with the health needs of communities. The program is focused on researchers who want to improve health, well-being, and equity; challenge long-standing, entrenched systems; exhibit new ways of working; collaborate across disciplines and sectors; and engage others outside of the research community. By providing leadership development training, supporting opportunities to practice new behaviors, and learning to work in teams, HPRS will develop a new cadre of research leaders who will build a Culture of Health in their disciplines and communities.
Up to four years
The stipend for the current program participants is $30,000 per scholar, per year, for up to four years. The applicant is expected to propose a stipend amount that adequately supports the participant and, coupled with other program costs, does not exceed the up-to-$8 million budget for the program at full enrollment.
HPRS aims to fund doctoral students who:
- Are committed to conducting research that is aligned with the needs of communities, has health equity at its center, and is actionable.
- Are interested in translating their research into evidence-informed health policy.
- Want to use their research and leadership skills to become change agents for more equitable and actionable research.
- Are studying fields in which policy is the main lever for change—from public health to diverse fields of study outside of health (e.g., urban planning, political science, economics, ethnography, education, social work, sociology).
- Have completed their first year of studies.
- Are from underrepresented populations and/or disadvantaged backgrounds whose racial, socioeconomic, ability status, or other personal factors allow them to bring unique and diverse perspectives to their research.
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