Applications will be accepted from health professionals (e.g. oncologists, AIDS clinicians, pharmacists, pain and palliative care physicians), health care administrators, policy experts, social workers or lawyers from low or middle income countries who have an interest in drug policy advocacy to improve availability of opioid analgesics for pain relief and palliative care. [Please note that Fellowships have previously been awarded to the following countries: Argentina, Armenia, Colombia, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Moldova, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Vietnam. As such, except in special cases, it is unlikely that additional Fellowships will be awarded to applicants from these countries.]
The two-year Fellowship program will include training, mentoring, and an in-country pain policy project. A salary stipend will be given to cover a portion of each fellow’s professional salary as the Fellow must commit to spending approximately 8 hours per week of his/her professional time on the project. Applicants must have a sincere interest in improving access to opioid analgesics for pain management through drug policy advocacy.
Fellows are required to participate in a five-day learner-centered training program at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin from 6-10 August 2012. The training program will cover the relationships between disease, pain, palliative care, and inadequate opioid availability, and will use WHO Guidelines to examine regulatory barriers and resources for evaluating national policy, as well as examples of their use. Each Fellow will be responsible for outlining their drug availability project plan and timeline during the training program in Madison, and then incorporating it into their in-country pain policy project.
The deadline for receipt of completed applications is Friday, 20 April 2012.
This program is supported by LIVESTRONG and directed by the Pain & Policy Studies Group of the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center.
More information, including the application, are attached to this message. These materials are also available at www.painpolicy.wisc.edu.
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2012 International pain policy fellowship
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