Soros Health and Reproductive Rights Fellowships

crossposted from Foundatoin Center

Applications Invited for Soros Reproductive Health and
        Rights Fellowship

 Deadline: October 1, 2002

 The Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship at the
 Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health,
 Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, is
 supported by the Open Society Institute's Program on
 Reproductive Health and Rights. The program's mission is
 to invite scholars and activists to engage in collective
 discussion, research, analysis, and publication to advance
 progressive reproductive health and rights policies around
 the world.

 The Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellowship seeks
 to: bring together U.S. and international scholars and
 scholar-activists from a broad variety of disciplines to
 stimulate and enrich each others' work; support research
 and writing that advances gender equality and the
 recognition of reproductive rights and women's rights as
 human rights; and produce an edited volume and other
 materials that will serve as intellectual resources for
 policy makers, activists, academics, and students.

 Fellowships of up to 50 percent salary support for one
 year, not to exceed $40,000 per fellow, will be awarded to
 approximately six highly qualified applicants in exchange
 for fulfilling the responsibilities outlined below. Travel
 expenses for fellows' meetings in New York will also be
 provided.

 The 2003-04 cycle of the Soros Reproductive Health and
 Rights Fellowship will explore the state of reproductive
 health and rights globally through a human rights lens.
 Fellows' research will be designed to identify the steps
 needed to fulfill the agendas established at the 1994
 International Conference on Population and Development
 (ICPD) in Cairo and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on
 Women in Beijing, and to develop strategies for tackling
 cultural, political, and financial barriers to the free
 expression of reproductive rights.

 Individuals from academia, advocacy groups, policy
 organizations, government, and research firms are
 encouraged to apply. Applicants from outside of the United
 States are especially urged to apply as it is anticipated
 that several of the fellowships will be awarded to
 international applicants. Applicants are sought from
 diverse fields including reproductive health, public
 health, demography, epidemiology, economics, social
 sciences, political science, history, medicine, law, human
 rights, ethics, and philosophy.

 For complete program guidelines, see the Web site of the
 Open Society Institute's Program on Reproductive Health
 and Rights.

 RFP Link: http://www.soros.org/repro/fellowship.htm