Public - Private Partnerships



American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation/Pfizer Visiting Professorship Program in Family Medicine
In partnership with the AAFP, Pfizer offers the opportunity to apply for 3 days of expert teaching and interaction during the 2010-2011 academic year. Six institutions will receive $7500 each to invite a prominent physician-scientist of their choosing. The guest faculty member may give lectures, as well as participate in rounds, seminars, and conferences

American College of Preventive Medicine/Pfizer Practicum Rotation in Health Policy and Preventive Medicine
This program is intended to give preventive medicine residents an opportunity to take part in preventive medicine policy activities during a 3-month rotation in the nation's capital. Award recipients also spend one day at Pfizer's Washington, DC, office, learning about pharmaceutical industry policy issues.

American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation Minority Scholars Award
The program offers ten Minority Scholars Awards of $10,000 each year. Applicants must be current first- or second-year medical students and citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Eligible backgrounds include African American/Black, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and Hispanic/Latino.

American Public Health Association (APHA) Public Health Fellowship in Government
A unique public policy learning experience for candidates with strong public health credentials who wish to spend one year in Washington, D.C. working in a congressional office on legislative and policy issues related to health, the environment or other critical public health issues. Award recipients also spend one day at Pfizer’s Washington, DC office learning about pharmaceutical industry policy issues and present a summary of their sponsored work during the previous year.

The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
The CDC Experience: Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at CDC provides medical students with an applied hands-on training experience in epidemiology and public health. Eight competitively selected medical students from around the country who are completing their second or third year of medical school will spend up to one full year at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. While at CDC, with the guidance of experienced CDC epidemiologists, they carry out epidemiologic analyses in areas such as birth defects, injury, chronic disease, infectious disease, environmental health, reproductive health and minority health.

National Institutes of Health, Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP)
The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) for Medical and Dental Students is a 12-month program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical and dental students to the intramural campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Participants, known as Fellows, spend a year engaged in a mentored clinical or translational research project in an area that matches their personal interests and goals.

Student National Medical Association (SNMA) David E. Satcher, MD Research Fellowship Program
Fellowship awards start at $5000 to support research focusing on racial and ethnic health disparities, which includes, but is not limited to, research in obesity prevention and intervention. Research may be within the basic sciences, clinical sciences, or public health.