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Funding Opporutnity | RWJF: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program

Grant Amount: Up to $420,000 over four years

Deadline: March 15, 2023

Additional Information -
RWJF believes that leadership for health equity (individuals, organizations, or communities co-creating an emerging future in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity for health and wellbeing) is an essential lever for change, especially the complex change needed to dismantle structural racism. Our leadership development programs support and connect participants to enhance their influence as leaders, researchers, and advisers to achieve greater equity in communities across our country.

The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically marginalized backgrounds. We expect scholars to spend at least 70 percent of their time engaged in research. Scholars should be committed to working toward eliminating health disparities especially within underserved populations; to support succeeding AMFDP scholars; and to achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing.

The program provides scholars with:

  • development of research, academic, and leadership skills;
  • ongoing mentoring by a distinguished national advisory committee;
  • a grounding in the social determinants of health, health equity, and the elements of a Culture of Health;
  • growth in communications skills to advance the impact of scholars’ research and scholarship in the field.

In this grant cycle, RWJF will fund up to 10 four-year awards of up to $420,000 each. Scholars will receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities.

Link to Complete RFP

Please contact Lynn Wong if you are interested in applying to this opportunity.