URGENT: Scholarship apps due for Certificate Program (fwd)

[Laura Larsson]

Friends:

Please get your applications in ASAP, but by Apr.24. 
This is a wonderful opportunity to get a quality educational experience
at the University of Washington.

Regards,

Laura
larsson at u.washington.edu
listowner: PHNUTR-L, PHNURSES, PNWHEALTH, HSR-L +
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hserv/hshome.html
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~phnutr/nutrhome.html

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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:51:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: "P. O'Carroll" <ocarroll at u.washington.edu>

Friends:

SEE IMPORTANT DEADLINE BELOW: ONE WEEK AWAY--

As you know, the U.W. School of Public Health and Community Medicine,
through the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, is one of four
schools offering a graducate certificate program for current public health
practitioners. This year, CDC is offering forty scholarships overall for
persons to participate in these training programs. (details follow)

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SCHOLARSHIP ARE DUE AT CDC BY FRI, APRIL 24, at 4pm! 

Remember: the scholarship "is paid by CDC [and] covers full tuition, fees,
laptop PC, and board - total value approximately $20,000" 

Please circulate this announcement to any of your staff and colleagues who
might wish to take advantage of this remarkable opportunity. 

Thanks,

P.
---
Patrick O'Carroll, MD, MPH
CDC/PHPPO; at the
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
University of Washington School of Public Health
   and Community Medicine
(206) 616-9234
ocarroll at u.washington.edu



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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:11:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J. Hilovsky" <jhilov at u.washington.edu>
To: "P. O'Carroll" <ocarroll at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Reminder re Scholarships for Certificate Program

The CDC, in conjunction with the Association of State and Territorial
Health Officials (ASTHO), is offering approximately 40 guaranteed
scholarship slots to public health department employees for a graduate
certificate program in public health.  The completed application must be
submitted to CDC by April 24, 1998.
 
WHAT IS IT?
The Graduate Certificate Program (GCP) is an innovative approach to
provide public health practitioners critical public health training.  This
focused curriculum was developed by CDC and four top Schools of Public
Health: Emory University, Johns-Hopkins University, Tulane University, and
the University of Washington.  Offered in a non-traditional way, the GCP
allows working professionals the opportunity to pursue essential graduate
level credits while remaining employed.
 
Students earn between 21 - 35 semester or quarter hours of graduate course
credit that may be transferable to a MPH program.

WHO IS ELEIGIBLE TO APPLY?
CDC, in conjunction with ASTHO, is offering scholarships to support state,
city and county public health professionals who are interested in pursuing
this educational opportunity.  Scholarships will cover tuition, books, and
materials, and a laptop computer for use while enrolled in the GCP.  The
cost of travel and per diem for on-campus sessions is not provided.  These
scholarships will be awarded through a competitive application process.
Final admission decision will be determined by the school the candidate
has applied to.
 
WHERE IT IS?
The GCP combines traditional classroom instruction with distance based
education methods to offer a unique opportunity to develop and enhance
public heatlh skills and expertise.  Students are on-campus 6-7 weeks over
the course of a 15-18 month academic calendar, and studens are never
on-campus more than 2-weeks at a time.  The majority of course work is
done at a distance, using asynchronous or distributed educations methods.
Students will interact and access course information via the Internet and
World Wide Web (www).  This means that students can do course work
anywhere, anyplace and anytime.

PROGRAM START DATES
Classes start in the Summer of 1998 and finish in the Fall of 1999.
Specific start and finish dates vary by school.  They are:  Johns Hopkins
- June 28th, Emory - July 6th, Tulane - July 18th and University of
Wahsington - July 26th.
 
FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
The scholarship which is paid by CDC covers full tuition, fees, laptop PC,
and
board - total value approximately $20,000.  The jurisdictions or
individual
health department employee would be responsible for travel and per diem
(meals
& incidental expenses), estimated at less than $5,000 per student.
 
FURTHER INFORMATION
Specific information about the GCP at each school can be found at the
following Internet websites:
     Emory-http://web.sph.emory.edu/gcphome.html
     Tulane-http://payson.tcs.tulane.edu/cdcgcp/
     Johns Hopkins-http://www/jhsph.edu/~distance/certificate/
     University of Washington;http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ctpph/

HOW TO APPLY?
Individuals interested in applying to the GCP for scholarship
considerations
must complete an application packet which can be obtained by contacting
ASTHO.
Please let them know that you are requesting the GCP scholarship
application
packet.  Please contact:
 
Helen Fox Fields or Patrick Flaherty at (202)371-9090 or E-mail at
hfffields at astho.org    or     patrickf at astho.org
 
ASTHO
1275 K Street, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC  20005-4006      http://www.astho.org
 
The completed application must be submitted to CDC by April 24, 1998.
Students will be notified by mid-May.
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