Promoting Wellness, Health and 
Access to High-Quality Health Care

$450,000 in Grants to Diversify Health Profession

With the goal of helping talented young men and women from underrepresented minorities enter the health care profession, Aetna Inc. and the Aetna Foundation have awarded grants and sponsorships totaling more than $450,000 to four separate programs that provide educational opportunities for African-American, Latino and Native American students. As announced in the May 11th news release the organizations receiving financial support are:

• Southern Methodist University, to provide a physician and scientific summer training program for middle school students from underrepresented minority populations;
• Four Directions Summer Research Program, to support an eight-week research course for American Indian and Alaska Native college students sponsored by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School;
• National Medical Fellowships (NMF), to create the Aetna Foundation/NMF National Leadership Program that will provide medical school scholarships for underrepresented minority second- and third-year students;
• UNCF (United Negro College Fund), to provide financial aid to minority college students typically attending historically black colleges and universities.

2011 AcademyHealth/Aetna Foundation Minority Scholars Announced

Fifteen researchers in the health disparities and health services fields have been chosen as the 2011 AcademyHealth/Aetna Foundation Minority Scholars. The program, founded last year, provides professional development, mentoring, and networking for graduate-level students, post-doctoral fellows and other researchers to attract more scholars from underrepresented minority populations to the fields of health disparities and health services. The program benefits also include the cost of travel and registration for the scholars to attend AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting and workshops, which will be held in Seattle next month, June 10 – 14. Earlier this year, the Aetna Foundation announced a $197,000 grant to extend the program through 2013.

The 2011 scholars are;
 
Carmela Alcántara, PhD
Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health
 
Sharon Austin, MPH, MA
PhD Candidate
University of Utah
 
Erica D. Bauer, MA, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital
 
LaPrincess Cerise Brewer, MD, MPH
Resident Physician/Clinical Fellow
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
 
Darigg C. Brown, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 
Suzette N. Brown, MD, MPH
Clinical Research Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Michael Paul Cary, Jr., MSN, RN
PhD Candidate
University of Virginia
 
Marla B. Hall, MA
PhD Candidate
Texas A&M University
 
Rachel Idowu, MD
Graduate Student, Masters in Public Health
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
 
Adriana Izquierdo, MD
Graduate Student, Masters of Sciences in Health Services
University of California, Los Angeles
 
Charles Jonassaint, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
 
Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall, MD
Clinical Fellow
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania/University of Pennsylvania
 
Joni Strom, MD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Medical University of South Carolina
 
Yhenneko Jallah Taylor, Mstat
Doctoral Student
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
 
Alice Villatoro, BA
Doctoral Student
University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health
 

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Aetna Foundation President Anne Beal and honoree Dr. William Owen, president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, at the National Medical Fellowship dinner on April 9 in New York, where Dr. Beal announced the formation of the new Aetna Foundation/NMF National Leadership Program
 

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