Announcing the 2012-2013 Class of Health and Aging Policy Fellows
Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies, in collaboration with the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program, the goal of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is to create a cadre of professional leaders who will serve as positive change agents in health and aging policy, helping to shape a healthy and productive future for older Americans.
Announcing the 2012-2013 class of Health and Aging Policy Fellows:
Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, (in collaboration with the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program) the goal of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program is to create a cadre of professional leaders who will serve as positive change agents in health and aging policy, helping to shape a healthy and productive future for older Americans.
The Residential Fellows will spend a year in Washington, D.C. working on Capitol Hill or in an executive branch agency. The Non-Residential Fellows will stay in their current positions while working on health policy projects, often working in collaboration with federal agencies or congressional offices as well. All Fellows will participate in core program components focused on leadership in health and aging policy, and career and communications skill development.
The program is open to physicians, nurses and social workers at all career stages with a demonstrated commitment to health and aging issues and a desire to be involved in health policy at the federal, state or local level. Other professionals with clinical backgrounds (e.g., pharmacists, dentists, clinical psychologists) working in the field of health and aging are also eligible to apply. Under special circumstances, exceptions may be made for non-clinicians who are in positions that can impact health policy for older Americans at a clinical level.
The 2012-2013 Health and Aging Policy Fellows are:
Residential Fellows
Christine E. Bishop, PhD
Atran Professor of Labor Economics
Schneider Institute for Health Policy
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Maureen Henry, JD
Executive Director
Utah Commission on Aging
Brooke Hollister, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Social & Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
Joan D. Penrod, PhD
Research Health Science Specialist
James J. Peters VA Medical Center
Associate Professor
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Non-Residential Fellows
Arlene S. Bierman, M.D., M.S.
Ontario Women's Health Council Chair in Women's Health
University of Toronto
Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
St. Michael’s Hospital
Kenneth Brummel-Smith, MD
Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair
Department of Geriatrics
Florida State University
College of Medicine
Joan K. Davitt, PhD, MSS, MLSP
Associate Professor & Hartford Geriatric Social Work
Faculty Scholar
University of Maryland
School of Social Work
Susan C. Lynch, JD, MPH
Trial Attorney, Health Care Fraud, Civil Division,
United States Department of Justice,
Adjunct Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
Rajean P. Moone, PhD
Community Impact Manager – Independence
Greater Twin Cities United Way
Emily J. Nicklett, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
For further information on the program, please visit www.healthandagingpolicy.org or contactpincush@nyspi.columbia.edu or Kathy Pike, Associate Director, Health and Aging Policy Fellowship (kmp2@columbia.edu).
