The Rush Population Health Equity Fellowship is a two-year, post-residency program at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. The fellowship prepares physicians to lead efforts in population health equity through advanced training in education, research, community engagement, advocacy, policy, and clinical innovation.
Program highlights
- Fellows are considered half-time employees, are compensated at the half-time attending salary, and will receive full benefits. Family leave time is available.
- The Fellowship is founded on the pillars of Faculty Development, Community Partnership, Leadership, Education, Research, and Advocacy.
- An inter-professional faculty—comprised of physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, psychologists, and community leaders—will teach and advise fellows.
- In addition to a core curriculum in health equity, fellows are explicitly taught the skills necessary to work within—and ultimately lead—inter-professional teams, and taught how to themselves be better teachers and advocates of equitable healthcare and public health.
- Multiple teaching opportunities at the medical student, resident, and attending levels are structured into the fellowship.
- Fellows will receive guidance to focus their MPH practical work and research on existing disparities affecting vulnerable populations, and will be supported by faculty to facilitate publications and presentations at the local and national levels.
What can a career in Population Health Equity look like?
Population health equity careers focus on reducing health disparities and ensuring all communities have fair access to optimal health outcomes, combining public health, data science, policy advocacy, and community engagement.
David Ansell, MD, MPH - Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity, social epidemiologist, author The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Ansell, MD
Stephanie Crane, MD - Co-Fellowship Director Rush Global Health Fellowship, Chief of the Division of Community and Global Health Equity
John A. Rich, MD, MPH - director of the RUSH BMO Institute for Health Equity, former director and founder of the Drexel Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Amanda Bradke, MD - medical director Center to Transform Health and Housing, founder and co-chair Chicago Coalition for Anti-Racism and Equity in Health
Bradley Hersh, MD - Medical epidemiologist, Immunization Design and Implementation, HIV and COVID-19 programs in low and middle-income countries
Elizabeth Davis, MD - Associate Chief Medical Officer for Community Health Equity, founder of Rush@Home, signature fellow Leadership Greater Chicago
Braden Hexom, MD - Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Founding Residency Program Director Rush EM
Juan C. Rojas, MD, MS - Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Advancing Healthcare through AI and Data-Driven Solutions, Chicago Health Map
Clinical work will be situated at Rush University Medical Center, an urban tertiary care hospital or Rush Oak Park Hospital, which offers a community hospital experience.
Rush is the largest employer on Chicago's West Side, channeling its economic power to improve neighborhood vitality and help residents achieve better health.
Fellows are an integral part of the Department of Emergency Medicine's thriving Division of Health Equity or the Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Community and Global Health Equity.
