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Saturday, December 19, 2009

USA: Harvard Graduate Summer Fellowship in Health Policy at The Heritage Foundation

Overview

The fellowship is available to a Harvard student currently engaged in graduate studies at the university. The fellowship is for work in the area of health care economics and policy and is available for the summer.

The fellow will report to the Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies, Stuart Butler, or to the Director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Health Policy Studies, Robert Moffit.

Duty and Responsibility

During the fellowship, the fellow will work on one or more projects. These will be agreed upon with Dr. Butler prior to the fellowship and must be compatible with the work and goals of the Foundation. The projects typically will include research and writing, including writing that may be published by The Heritage Foundation (provided the writing meets the Foundation's standards and is relevant to its planned publications). Dr. Butler or Dr. Moffit will supervise the fellow's research and writing. In addition, the fellow will work with analysts in the Foundation's Department of Domestic and Economic Policy Studies. The fellow will play a full part in the research work and all activities of the Foundation.


Eligible Candidiate

The fellowship is open to students from Harvard Medical School or the School of Public Health. The fellowship is also open to students with a focus on health policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and from other departments in the university.

The fellow will have the title "Graduate Fellow."

Value of this fellowship

This is a paid fellowship.

This graduate fellowship is made possible by a contribution to the Heritage Foundation by Robert T. Lewit, M.D., Harvard College, '59 and Harvard Medical School, '63.

Requirements

To be considered for the Health Policy Fellowship at the Heritage Foundation you must meet the following criteria:

•Reside in the Washington, DC area during the 12-week program and be available 40 hours per week for the full length of the program. Start and end dates are determined with the Health Policy Center.

•Enrolled in, or recently completed, a graduate program in health policy, public policy, medicine, economics, statistics, business, or other policy-related field.
•Excellence in quantitative analysis and statistical methods, evidenced by graduate-level statistics and methods courses.

•Interest in The Center for Health Policy Center mission (i.e., entitlement program reform, tax treatment of health care, state health care reform).
Information and Applications

Applications must be received by March 2 for a summer 2010 fellowship.

The Heritage Foundation will select the Graduate Fellow.

To apply for the fellowship, please mail or e-mail:

•Your resume.
•A letter of recommendation from a Harvard faculty member. You may include an additional letter of recommendation from another individual.
•A letter explaining why this opportunity at The Heritage Foundation is of interest to you and why you believe you should be selected for the fellowship.
For more information on the Foundation's Center for Health Care Policy, see:

http://www.heritage.org/research/healthcare/

If you have questions about the fellowship, please contact:

Stuart M. Butler, Ph.D.

Vice President, Domestic and Economic Policy Studies

The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002
Phone: 202-608-6200
E-mail: stuart.butler@heritage.org


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