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Fourth Annual New Connections Symposium

June 16, 2010

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming is excited to announce its fourth annual Symposium which will be held at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey, June 16-18, 2010. Our Symposium chairperson is Dr.William Vega, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California, and Co-Director of the Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Healthcare at UCLA. The Symposium aims to increase the visibility and enhance the skill sets of New Connections grantees and potential applicants. Applicants to New Connections are early to mid career researchers from underrepresented communities.


The three day Symposium promises to be an exciting career development opportunity. Highlights from the meeting include several high quality methodological sessions, a proposal review workshop, and a New Connections grantee and alumni poster session. Dr. David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University, will be a featured speaker.


Application to the Symposium closed on April 26, 2010.

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