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Postdoctoral Fellowships in

Health Promotion/Risk Reduction Interventions

Goals

One- to two-year postdoctoral fellowships are funded by the NINR-supported institutional research training grant to prepare scientists to study the fundamental mechanisms underlying the health promoting behaviors of individuals and aggregates, and test the efficacy of theoretically valid and culturally appropriate interventions. The focus of the program is on:

• Understanding factors that influence health behaviors (including health promotion and health protective behaviors) throughout the lifespan.
  
• Identifying interactions among genetic, biophysical, behavioral, cultural and socioeconomic processes that influence health behaviors and related health outcomes.
  
• Designing and testing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of interventions to bring about changes in individual and aggregate health behavior.

Training Support

Training support is for a one- to two-year period. Annual stipends are set by NIH based upon years of experience since doctorate. Additional funds are available to cover conference and research related expenses.

Qualifications

PhD in nursing, or master's degree in nursing and PhD in health-related field, United States citizenship or permanent residence. Applicants should submit:

• A letter describing specific research interest in health promotion/risk reduction, the fit of proposed research with the research area of potential mentor at Michigan, and summary of career goals
• Curriculum vita
• Three letters of recommendation
• Transcripts of graduate study
• Doctoral dissertation and reprints of publications

Interview is required.

Training Faculty Research Areas

• Donna Algase - elderly, cognitive, and behavioral issues
• Violet Barkauskas - outcomes of community-based nursing services
• Carol Boyd - substance abuse and gender
• Kimberlee Gretebeck - physical activity and functional ability of older adults
• Bonnie Hagerty - depression; self-management
• Oi-Saeng Hong - health promotion/risk reduction in workers and minority women
• Carol Loveland-Cherry - family patterns, interventions with adolescents and families
• Kristy Martyn - adolescent girls' risk behavior
• Laurel Northouse - cancer effects on families
• Penny Pierce - women's health care and decision making behavior
• Joanne Pohl - nurse managed centers; smoking cessation
• Carolyn Sampselle - women's self-care, urinary incontinence
• Margaret Scisney-Matlock - cognitive representation of hypertension
• Karen Stein - social cognitions, self-concept, in emotional and behavioral self-regulation
• Anne Thomas - health promotion and cancer in the elderly population
• Antonia Villarruel - HIV sexual risk reduction
• SeonAe Yeo - pregnancy and exercise

For more information and application materials, contact:

Carol Loveland-Cherry, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Program Director
E-mail: loveland@umich.edu

Antonia Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor and Co-Program Director HPRR Postdoctoral Training Program
University of Michigan
School of Nursing
400 N. Ingalls
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 764-9519, Fax: (734) 647-0351
School of Nursing: 1-800-458-8689
E-mail address: avillarr@umich.edu

Inquiries about the program are welcome at any time. The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.