Call for Applications: Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media and Policy Initiative

Call for Applications: Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media and Policy Initiative The Mayday Fund will cover travel expenses for the training in October, and will cover the cost of receiving communications support over five months from Burness Communications. The Mayday Fund, a New York City-based foundation dedicated to alleviating the incidence, degree, and consequence of human physical pain, is interested in providing new leaders in the pain field with tools that will enable them to reach the broader public. In 2004, Mayday established the Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media and Policy Initiative, a fellowship program to train physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, basic, translational and clinical scientists, policy experts and legal scholars in the pain management community to go beyond their own professional pursuits to become leaders and advocates for change in the pain field in the United States and Canada. The Fellowship seeks those applicants who have the capacity, time and passion to become active advocates in the field, and foresee significant impact from their efforts to improve the lives of people in pain. The deadline for applying to the 2013 program is Monday, July 1. You must submit: 1. Your completed application 2. A letter approving your participation in the program from your immediate supervisor or chairperson. The letter should include confirmation that you can devote 10 percent of your time to the Fell...
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