Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in Abortion and Reproductive Health
The 2008-2010 Ellertson Fellows have been selected! Click here for the announcement.
The Bixby Center, in collaboration with Ibis Reproductive Health, manages the Charlotte Ellertson Postdoctoral Fellowship program for social scientists. The fellowship's objectives are to:
- support a multidisciplinary cohort of promising new social science researchers who study abortion and reproductive health, and
- produce and share research that informs policy and program design in abortion and reproductive health.
The fellowship seeks applicants who are committed to abortion scholarship and careers that include a focus on abortion research and advocacy.
Fellowship Description
The fellowship includes independent and collaborative research, as well as work with advocacy organizations. Each fellow works intensively with a mentor on her/his specific research projects. A fellowship site director provides general guidance and orientation to the fellowship site. Fellows work with their mentors to:
- design research protocols
- conduct a significant research project
- submit manuscripts or book proposals for publication
- give presentations and/or seminars
- submit funding proposals
- participate in skills-building seminars (e.g., media and communications, fundraising, the policy process) and annual meetings
- visit clinics and hospitals to observe abortion and reproductive health care services
- collaborate with and lend expertise to reproductive health and rights advocacy organizations
- develop professional networks of researchers, advocates and clinicians
Each fellow receives an annual stipend between $50,000 and $55,000 (depending on the site), health benefits, and educational loan repayment assistance. Fellows may also apply for up to $15,000 per year to support individual research projects.
Fellowship Sites
The fellowship has five sites:
- Columbia University's Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health in the Mailman School of Public Health (New York, NY)
- Guttmacher Institute (New York, NY)
- Ibis Reproductive Health (Cambridge, MA)
- Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health and the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, MD)
- University of California, San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, at the School of Medicine, in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences (San Francisco, CA)
Application Information
Visit the Ibis Reproductive Health website for more information on the fellowship and the application process. Please email fellowship@ibisreproductivehealth.org with any questions.