Overview

The fellowship will:

• Provide strong academic training and coursework. Fellows will complete academic work leading to a Master of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, or a Master of Public Administration degree at the Harvard Kennedy School.
• Enhance the leadership ability of emergency physicians, offering them substantive knowledge in health policy and management, while creating a network of physician-leaders capable of advancing successfully among the public, nonprofit, and academic sectors. Fellows will participate in leadership forums and seminars with nationally recognized leaders in health care delivery systems, minority health, and health policy, along with local governmental and public health officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Provide each fellow with mentoring, networking and career development by Harvard senior faculty and administrators, including the HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership and Minority Faculty Development Program, as well as access to national leaders in health policy and public health practice.d
• Support a practicum project examining critical issues related to emergency department care of vulnerable populations. Supported by senior leadership in the Department of Emergency Medicine, CHA executive leadership, and the Cambridge Public Health Department, fellows will develop and complete an individual practicum project that will examine policies and interventions that affect vulnerable patients and access to emergency care.
• Provide clinical experience as an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). CHA is an community-based, academic, urban safety-net health system, with Emergency Departments with an annual census of approximately 100,000 annual visits.