Fellowships: Harvard School of Public Health, Takemi Program, 02/03

The Takemi Program seeks applications for a limited number of fellow-ships for research and advanced training on critical issues of international health, especially those relating to developing countries. This interdisciplinary program focuses primarily on mobilizing, allocating, and managing scarce resources to improve health, and creating sound strategies for disease control and health promotion. To address these issues, the Program brings together at Harvard a small group of future leaders from around the world and from diverse disciplines. Through its fellowships for highly qualified individuals the Takemi Program seeks to contribute to institutional development and to improvement of national health policy as well as to the advancement of knowledge.

The Program is named for the late Dr. Taro Takemi, the distinguished physician-scientist, who served for more than 25 years as President of the Japan Medical Association. Dr. Takemi also worked energetically to encourage people from many nations to address common issues, particularly the development and allocation of resources for health improvement.

The Takemi Program has three major objectives:

* to create better methods for mobilizing and using health resources
in both rich and poor countries;

* to promote cooperative research and comparative analysis of health
policies and programs in different countries, including the promotion of Essential National Health Research;

* to contribute to individual and institutional development by bringing together leading health professionals and scholars from many nations for research and training.

If you are interested in applying, please visit our web site listed below for a downloadable application form, requirements, and additional information. The application deadline for September 2003 admission is Feb. 1, 2003.

Program Coordinator Takemi Program in International Health Harvard School of Public Health 665 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115, USA Tel: +1-617-432-0686 Fax: +1-617-432-1251 mailto:takemi@hsph.harvard.edu http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/takemi

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