Announcements NEW! The application deadline for the 2010-2011 fellowship year is April 15, 2010. NEW! For the 2010-2011 fellowship year, the CDC is sponsoring a non-residential Health and Aging Policy Fellow. NEW! The 2010 application cycle for the Practice Change Fellows Program is now open.  Please visit www.practicechangefellows.org Click here for the application.

The nine-to-12-month Program offers fellows the opportunity to participate in a residential track or a non-residential track. The residential track allows fellows to participate in the policymaking process on either the Federal or state level as legislative assistants in Congress, professional staff members in executive agencies or policy organizations. The non-residential track allows fellows to work on a policy project and brief placement(s) throughout the year at relevant sites. Core program components focused on career development and professional enrichment are provided for fellows in both tracks. Fellows also have the opportunity to apply for second-year funding to continue components of their fellowship experience/project either at their placement sites, at the state/local levels, or with non-governmental organizations.

We are delighted to announce our partnership with the John Heinz Senate Fellowship in Issues of the Aging. Our programs have combined to create the joint John Heinz/Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. Each year, one individual will be designated the John Heinz/Health and Aging Policy Fellow. (For more information about the John Heinz Senate Fellowship please visit www.heinzfamily.org/programs/senatefellowship.html.)

We are equally delighted to announce our partnership with the Healthy Aging Porgram at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For the 2010-2011 fellowship year, the CDC is sponsoring a non-residential Health and Aging Policy Fellow. (For more information, please see this website under "About the Fellowship - Partnerships" at www.healthandagingpolicy.org/about/congressional_fellow.html.)

The Health and Aging Policy Fellows program is directed by Harold Alan Pincus, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University (in collaboration with the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program) and made possible by the generous support of The Atlantic Philanthropies.

The mission of The Atlantic Philanthropies is to bring about lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Through its Ageing Programme, The Atlantic Philanthropies aims to help transform how aging is viewed within society and improve the way older persons are treated by society. They focus on aging in Bermuda, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United States. General aims include ensuring that older adults:

• are treated with dignity and respect;
• are fully empowered to shape their own destinies;
• have access to health and support systems;
• are represented by a strong cadre of leaders; and
• are able to contribute actively their expertise and abilities for the good of society.