From pdunham@u.washington.edu Thu Apr 16 11:20:22 1998 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id LAA51050; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:20:21 -0700 Received: from homer03.u.washington.edu (pdunham@homer03.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.13]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id LAA32672; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:20:18 -0700 Received: from localhost (pdunham@localhost) by homer03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id LAA129250; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:20:16 -0700 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "P. Dunham" To: wadl@u.washington.edu, ph-assess@u.washington.edu Subject: URGENT: Scholarship apps due for Certificate Program (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Friends: SEE IMPORTANT DEADLINE BELOW: ONE WEEK AWAY-- As you know, the U.W. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, through the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, is one of four schools offering a graducate certificate program for current public health practitioners. This year, CDC is offering forty scholarships overall for persons to participate in these training programs. (details follow) APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SCHOLARSHIP ARE DUE AT CDC BY FRI, APRIL 24, at 4pm! Remember: the scholarship "is paid by CDC [and] covers full tuition, fees, laptop PC, and board - total value approximately $20,000" Please circulate this announcement to any of your staff and colleagues who might wish to take advantage of this remarkable opportunity. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:11:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Hilovsky" Subject: Reminder re Scholarships for Certificate Program The CDC, in conjunction with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), is offering approximately 40 guaranteed scholarship slots to public health department employees for a graduate certificate program in public health. The completed application must be submitted to CDC by April 24, 1998. WHAT IS IT? The Graduate Certificate Program (GCP) is an innovative approach to provide public health practitioners critical public health training. This focused curriculum was developed by CDC and four top Schools of Public Health: Emory University, Johns-Hopkins University, Tulane University, and the University of Washington. Offered in a non-traditional way, the GCP allows working professionals the opportunity to pursue essential graduate level credits while remaining employed. Students earn between 21 - 35 semester or quarter hours of graduate course credit that may be transferable to a MPH program. WHO IS ELEIGIBLE TO APPLY? CDC, in conjunction with ASTHO, is offering scholarships to support state, city and county public health professionals who are interested in pursuing this educational opportunity. Scholarships will cover tuition, books, and materials, and a laptop computer for use while enrolled in the GCP. The cost of travel and per diem for on-campus sessions is not provided. These scholarships will be awarded through a competitive application process. Final admission decision will be determined by the school the candidate has applied to. WHERE IT IS? The GCP combines traditional classroom instruction with distance based education methods to offer a unique opportunity to develop and enhance public heatlh skills and expertise. Students are on-campus 6-7 weeks over the course of a 15-18 month academic calendar, and studens are never on-campus more than 2-weeks at a time. The majority of course work is done at a distance, using asynchronous or distributed educations methods. Students will interact and access course information via the Internet and World Wide Web (www). This means that students can do course work anywhere, anyplace and anytime. PROGRAM START DATES Classes start in the Summer of 1998 and finish in the Fall of 1999. Specific start and finish dates vary by school. They are: Johns Hopkins - June 28th, Emory - July 6th, Tulane - July 18th and University of Wahsington - July 26th. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS The scholarship which is paid by CDC covers full tuition, fees, laptop PC, and board - total value approximately $20,000. The jurisdictions or individual health department employee would be responsible for travel and per diem (meals & incidental expenses), estimated at less than $5,000 per student. FURTHER INFORMATION Specific information about the GCP at each school can be found at the following Internet websites: Emory-http://web.sph.emory.edu/gcphome.html Tulane-http://payson.tcs.tulane.edu/cdcgcp/ Johns Hopkins-http://www/jhsph.edu/~distance/certificate/ University of Washington;http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ctpph/ HOW TO APPLY? Individuals interested in applying to the GCP for scholarship considerations must complete an application packet which can be obtained by contacting ASTHO. Please let them know that you are requesting the GCP scholarship application packet. Please contact: Helen Fox Fields or Patrick Flaherty at (202)371-9090 or E-mail at hfffields@astho.org or patrickf@astho.org ASTHO 1275 K Street, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005-4006 http://www.astho.org The completed application must be submitted to CDC by April 24, 1998. Students will be notified by mid-May. ******************************************************************* Jack Hilovsky Program Manager Northwest Center for Public Health Practice The University District Building 1107 NE 45th Street Suite 427 Box 354809 Seattle, WA 98195 tel: (206) 616-9460 fax: (206) 616-9415 e-mail: jhilov@u.washington.edu .