Puerto Rico Fellowship

Participation

The Puerto Rico Fellowship allows students throughout CUIMC/CU to work together and apply their academic training and/or professional experience related to health issues such as the impact of natural disasters on the health of some of Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable populations. This exciting opportunity is designed to offer long-term, sustained engagement between Columbia University and our community partners in Puerto Rico. 

View Power Point Presentation HERE.

Selection of Fellows

Each application will be evaluated based on the applicant’s academic ability, achievement, and experience relative to their ability to engage in interprofessional teams, engage with community through community-based participatory research and service-learning models. The selection committee will choose candidates whose experience, training, and career goals most closely align with the goals of the Fellowship. 


Ideal candidates will have substantive experience or coursework in two or more of the below:

  • Community-based participatory research
  • Interprofessional teams
  • Service learning especially with vulnerable populations
  • Experience with health-related community interventions 

Other qualifications include:

  • Students enrolled in the MSPH online “Community Engagement Practice” course will be given priority. 
  • Enrolled in a Columbia University graduate-level program full or part-time
  • In good academic and conduct standing at the University
  • Spanish fluency preferred (native or bilingual proficiency preferred)
  • Availability from December -April
  • Mandatory attendance to biweekly fellowship meetings and weekly project meetings 
  • Weekly time commitment approximately 6 hours per week, for fellowship work and group and individual meetings.
  • Travel to Puerto Rico during the Mailman School of Public Health spring break
  • Mandatory engagement in CU/CUIMC Presentations associated with the Fellowship

Graduate students from all CUIMC/CU that meet the qualifications are welcome to apply and will be equally considered.

Application

To be considered for the Puerto Rico Interprofessional Education, Service Learning and Community Based Participatory Research Fellowship, please complete the application via the Slate platform.  The link will become available in the fall of 2022. 

For any questions about the application process, please email msph-ofp@cumc.columbia.edu.