HSR Post Doc

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Services Research and Policy

The Division of Health Services Research and Policy offers a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Services Research and Policy supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/National Research Service Award (AHRQ/NRSA). This fellowship provides unique opportunities to integrate training of postdoctoral fellows with major programs at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and with partners outside of the Medical Center. Key components include other units of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (the Division of Healthcare Management and the National Center for Deaf Health Research), five nationally renowned URMC clinical departments (Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry), the NIH-funded UR Clinical and Translational Science Institute (UR-CTSI), and the Center for Community Health.

Most of these URMC units have extensive linkages with the Rochester community. Partners outside of URMC include two health insurers that together cover more than 90% of the population of Monroe County (Rochester and suburbs), the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency, the Monroe County Department of Public Health, a university-community organization research collaboration (the SHARE Alliance), the Greater Rochester Practice-based Research Network, and a consortium of major academic institutions in upstate New York organized under the aegis of the CTSI. A major goal of the UR-CTSI is to conduct the health services research (HSR) needed to translate research into clinical practice and the community in order to improve quality of care and health outcomes, and reduce disparities in health and health care in the Rochester community.

For further information please contact either the Program Director, Bruce Friedman, Ph.D., M.P.H., or the Program Co-Director for the Postdoctoral Program, Peter G. Szilagyi, M.D., M.P.H.