The Yale School of Public Health is accepting applications for pre-doctoral fellowships from applicants who seek a doctoral degree in public health with an interdisciplinary focus on climate change and health.
Successful applicants will receive a stipend, health insurance and full tuition. Matriculation will begin in September 2016.
Fellowships will be awarded to qualified students admitted to the Ph.D. program of the Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (visit www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions and choose “Public Health Department”).
Applications from underrepresented minority and international students are particularly encouraged. The application deadline is December 15, 2015.
The fellowships are designed to address what many consider to be the greatest public health challenge in this century, said Professor Robert Dubrow, M.D., Ph.D., program director.
The world needs bright, highly-motivated public health leaders to address climate change by conducting rigorous research and proposing and implementing innovative policy approaches.
Robert Dubrow, Professor of Epidemiology
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change concluded that the effects of climate change are already being felt, and future projections represent an unacceptably high— and potentially catastrophic—risk to human health. The commission also said that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century and that the health community has a vital role to play in addressing climate change.
“The world needs bright, highly-motivated public health leaders to address climate change by conducting rigorous research and proposing and implementing innovative policy approaches,” said Dubrow. “Through these fellowships, Yale School of Public Health aims to train such leaders.”
For more information on the fellowships contact Dubrow at (203) 785-2853 or robert.dubrow@yale.edu or Melanie Elliot, coordinator of Graduate Student Affairs, at (203) 785-6383 or melanie.elliot@yale.edu.