Graduate Training in Disability and Health

Each year of the RRTC: Health & Wellness, we offer graduate and post-doctoral training opportunities in research, leadership, and administration. Postdoctoral fellows work with us full-time for 1-2 years, post-MPH's work full-time for up to 10-12 months, graduate research assistants (GRAs) work up to .5 FTE and typically work with us for 10-12 months. We actively recruit potential participants in the identified fields who have a disability.

Our goals for this activity are to increase knowledge and awareness of barriers and access strategies to routine health care, evidence-based health promotion programs, and standard health status measurement tools. We also hope to Increase capacity to infuse disability and health awareness into broader disciplines.

Graduate students are recruited at the partner institutions from a range of relevant academic programs (e.g., public health, rehabilitation counseling, social welfare, psychology, nutrition, occupational and physical therapy). Postdoctoral fellows are recruited nationally from a range of disciplines and research training programs.