Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico (UNM) offers a variety of fellowships to qualified social science scholars interested in pursuing careers in health policy. The Center is the only institution dedicated to increasing the number of leaders from Latino and American Indian communities who will help shape the future of our nation’s health and health care. It is also home to leading experts on health policy, nursing, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science and journalism.

The program offers doctoral fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and the RWJF PhD in Nursing With a Concentration in Health Policy program to enrolled UNM students. In addition, the program offers visiting scholar research fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships to non-UNM students. Fellows receive financial, academic and networking support. The Center serves as a university-wide, organized research center that assists all the faculties of the university in their pursuit of knowledge and its applications to health policy.

The Center accepts proposals annually for seed grant funding to UNM faculty who promote research on a wide range of issues, emphasizing U.S. health and health care issues, especially those affecting Latino and American Indian communities. The objective of these grants is to stimulate research and encourage faculty across UNM departments who have an interest in these areas, to collect pilot data that will result in applications for extramural funding. These research projects will serve as the on-the-job training ground for the transdisciplinary work experienced by the Center’s fellows.