Applications Now Open for 2019 Salk Health Activist Fellowship

As our nation prepares for an important election year, the 2019 Jonas Salk Health Activist Fellowship will help emerging health activists learn how to grab the public's attention on a major health and social issue and spur action, using medical error as a case study. Despite the horrific numbers of hundreds of thousands of deaths and various campaigns to drive change – little progress has been made to reduce preventable medical error in America.

The most effective way to mobilize action is to reach a candidate for high political office with a platform that excites broad public support. In this election year, we have a major opportunity to do just that: To build the reduction of lethal medical errors into a winning electoral strategy.

During the 9-week program (10 sessions), Fellows will interact with some of the region's foremost leaders in developing compelling platforms and with successful politicians to learn how they select a platform. Fellows will develop new skills around social marketing and behavioral economics in order to develop appealing platforms and build public will. Fellows will also learn how to effectively pitch their ideas to different audiences. During the finale of the Fellowship, select Fellows will take the persona of a candidate and pitch their platform on medical errors to a live audience.

View the flyer here.

Deadline to apply is September 8, 2019.

To apply visit the Health Careers Futures website.