Internships / Fellowships
application deadline: 1-14-13
Paid Summer Health
Services Research Internship for Undergraduate Students
Today, one in every four Americans belongs to a racial or ethnic
minority group. Yet despite tremendous advances in health science in recent
decades, minorities still fall victim to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and
HIV/AIDS in numbers far greater than whites.
Clearly, it's going to take
more than medicine alone to change this fact. It will take health services
researchers and epidemiologists whose minority perspective can bring a broader
understanding to the political, social, economic and environmental realities of
the disparity of health care between minorities and whites.
To prepare top candidates to
pursue research in health services and epidemiology, the Leonard Davis Institute
of Health Economics (LDI) and the Health Care Management Department of the
Wharton School (HCMD), University of Pennsylvania are seeking applicants
for our summer research program for underrepresented minority undergraduate
students and interested others. Candidates from minority groups that are
underrepresented in the field of health services (African-American,
Hispanic/Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander) are particularly
encouraged to apply.
The Summer Undergraduate Minority
Research (SUMR) program, in its thirteenth year, provides
rising sophomores, juniors and seniors with an opportunity to receive a
generous monthly stipend to conduct health services and/or epidemiology
research on a topic of their choice, under the guidance of Penn faculty. The
purpose of SUMR is to prepare and encourage top students to pursue academic and
research careers in health services research and epidemiology. In addition to
conducting research, SUMR Scholars will participate in an orientation program,
enroll in a GRE prep course, attend weekly seminars, attend a national
conference in Orlando, and network with health services researchers and
epidemiologists. The program runs from late May through mid-August and
currently is funded by LDI, HCMD and the VA Center for Health Equity
Research and Promotion (CHERP). Past supporters, and/or supporters of
individual SUMR Scholars, have included the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), Penn's Center of Excellence for Diversity Health
Education and Research, Penn's School of Nursing,
and the Provost’s Diversity Fund.
I would appreciate your passing this information on to students who
may be interested in a summer internship in research, and/or, if possible,
posting a link to the SUMR program (http://ldi.upenn.edu/sumr)
on your web site. Interested students
can get program details and the on-line application due February 1, by
visiting SUMR’s web site at http://ldi.upenn.edu/sumr.
Please contact me at levyj@wharton.upenn.edu or (215) 898-1655 if
you have any questions.
Joanne H. Levy, MBA, MCP
Director, SUMR
Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.1655 (phone)
215.898.0229 (fax)
http://www.upenn.edu/ldi
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