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The HRSA Leadership Education in Adolescent Health LEAH Training Program prepares maternal and child health leaders in adolescent and young adult health within at least five core health disciplines, including medicine, nursing, nutrition, psychology, and social work by providing interdisciplinary leadership training to health professionals at the graduate and postgraduate levels.
Limited to one application per institution. The due date for applications is November 10, 2016. UIowa applicants are asked to contact Marta Gomez marta-gomez@uiowa.edu in the OVPRED or Angie Robertson in the CCoM angie-robertson@uiowa.edu at least 30 days prior to the deadline.
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Core Faculty Composition Core faculty must include well-qualified professionals from the following core disciplines: • Pediatrics and/or internal medicine or family medicine, • Nursing, • Nutrition, • Psychology, and • Social work
LEAH programs accomplish this aim of training the next generation of leaders in these health disciplines and improving the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults by: 1) Preparing trainees/fellows for leadership roles in clinical services, research, training, and organization of health services for adolescents and young adults including those with special health care needs; 2) Integrating biological, developmental, mental and behavioral health, social, economic, educational, and environmental health training within a public health framework; 3) Emphasizing technical assistance, continuing education, and collaboration with state and local public health agencies, education, youth development, and human service agencies and providers with a maternal and child health focus; and 4) Developing, enhancing, or improving evidence-based patient-centered, family involved, culturally competent, community-based care plans and practices for adolescents and young adults.
While students from these five core disciplines, at a minimum, must be trained within LEAH programs, programs may consider training outstanding candidates from other health professions (i.e., public health) who might contribute relevant interdisciplinary expertise to the adolescent and young adult health field in addition to trainees from the five core disciplines.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to describe plans to recruit and select trainees/fellows who are from diverse backgrounds. This plan must include special efforts for encouraging recruitment of qualified trainees from culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse backgrounds and for evaluating the success of the recruitment efforts.
