FEllowships and Awards

​OPPORTUNITIES DURING RESIDENCY

American Psychiatric Association Fellowships

These two-year awards provide mentorship, networking, and career development activities, as well as conference travel funds. Application is typically in December/January of PGY-2 or PGY-3.

Association of Women Psychiatrists

  • AWP Symonds Fellowship for commitment to women's health and community psychiatry. Apply any year.

  • Ellen Violett International Fellowship, providing funding for an international project. Awarded in even years only.

American College of Psychiatrists

  • The Laughlin Fellowship: For PGY3-5 residents "deemed likely to make a significant contribution to the field of psychiatry." Provides a travel award to the ACP annual meeting with special educational and networking opportunities for fellows with the program's extensive alumni network. Apply any year. (CGP awardees: Nichole Goodsmith)

Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture Travel Awards

The John Spiegel Fellowship is an annual award presented to a medical student, psychiatry resident, or fellow in subspecialty training in psychiatry who is dedicated to improving clinical care through culturally-informed practice. Somewhat outdated information can be found here - this award is still being offered annually. Deadline: November 1st

Health Affairs Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees and Podcast Fellowship Program

In 2021, Health Affairs launched two new fellowship programs: the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT) and the Podcast Fellowship program. These fellowship programs provide multi-layered mentorship to early-career researchers. As part of the HEFT and Podcast Fellowship programs, our fellows receive mentorship from experienced Health Affairs authors and editorial staff. The HEFT fellows of the initiative prepare for their manuscripts to be published in Health Affairs or another journal, and the Podcast fellows produce a podcast season which will air as part of the Health Affairs Pathways podcast channel.

POST-RESIDENCY TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Public Psychiatry Fellowships

  • One-year clinical training programs in public psychiatry

  • There are 23+ public psychiatry fellowships throughout the country including UCSF and UCSD in California

  • Contact Columbia University Public Psychiatry Fellowship alum Enrico Castillo for more information

Global Mental Health Fellowships

National Clinician Scholars Program (formerly the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program)

  • 2-year research and policy fellowship at several sites nationwide, including UCLA

  • Numerous UCLA faculty are program alumni

  • Contact Ken Wells and Enrico Castillo for more info

VA Mental Health Services Fellowships

Health Equity Scholars

The Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy has 2 fellowship programs:

Health Equity Education Fellowship: During the one year fellowship, the fellow will develop health equity curricula, teach clinicians in inter-professional training program settings at CHA, and teach health equity and policy to Harvard medical students. The fellowship will provide the fellow with mentored training and feedback in teaching in the classroom, curriculum development and evaluation. Recent graduates of clinical training programs who wish to pursue careers as scholarly clinician educators focused on reducing health inequities are welcome to apply.

Health Equity Scholars Program: Health Equity Education & Advocacy (CHEEA) is offering a uniquely tailored interprofessional program for mid-career healthcare professionals working in hospitals, primary care centers and other healthcare institutions. This program aims to provide a year-long, longitudinal curriculum with education, workshops and mentorship from CHEEA faculty and staff. Upon completion, scholars will have the ability to: 1) Effectively advocate for health and social justice issues, 2) Perform Health Equity Analysis and identify systemic opportunities for action, 3) Use the Community Organizing skills to engage other people in their advocacy projects, 4) Improve their overall leadership skills (including relationship and interprofessional team building).

LA Area Health Services Research Training Program Postdoctoral Fellowship

The LAAHSRTP postdoctoral fellowship is a joint initiative of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, RAND Health, The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, and the VA Los Angeles Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy. It is supported by a T-32 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The program provides comprehensive training and experience to highly-qualified postdoctoral trainees so that they may effectively engage in and lead research and implementation activities aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of the U.S. health care system.

Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University

This one-year degree-granting fellowship is designed to prepare physician-leaders, particularly physicians from groups underrepresented in medicine, to become leaders who improve the health of disadvantaged and vulnerable populations through transforming health care delivery systems and promoting innovation in policies, practices and programs that address health equity and the social determinants of health. The program provides strong academic training and coursework, including an MPH or MPA, for highly qualified physicians. It enhances the leadership ability of 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.

Additional Fellowship Opportunities