The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health, is announcing its summer 2010 Cook/Rutledge Fellowship. The fellowships are open to graduate students who are residents of New Jersey and who are now enrolled in a New Jersey university or college or attending an out of state university or college. Students must be enrolled in a school of medicine, law school or in a graduate Public Health Program. The Fellowship provides a stipend of $6,000 that is contingent upon availability of state funds. Students who have graduated or completed their programs before June can not apply. Fellows are expected to commit to and complete full-time, supervised ten to twelve week projects at the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services in Trenton. (Applicants may look at the Strategic Plan to Eliminate Health Disparities in New Jersey 2007
[www.state.nj.us/health/omh/plan/index.shtml] for project ideas.)
All 2010 Cook/Rutledge Fellowship application forms and attachments must be completed and returned by April 16, 2010. Incomplete applications will not be accepted. The application packet is available on the Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Minority and Multicultural Health website at http://www.nj.gov/health/omh/index.shtml. Any questions may be directed to Jose A. Gonzalez at (609) 292-6962 or to jose.gonzalez@doh.state.nj.us.
In the past, the Department has benefited from a number of well-researched and thoughtfully developed fellowship projects. We look forward to continued quality work from selected fellows.