The Public Voices Fellowship was created by AcademyHealth and The OpEd Project in 2022. Through this year-long fellowship, 20 thought leaders in public health, health services research, and health policy received training and support to elevate their voices and amplify their expertise in today’s most crucial health justice conversations. Fellows used these skills to shape their fields and foster crucial conversations to drive the HSR and health policy enterprise toward higher impact, equitable research. After two successful cohorts, AcademyHealth and The OpEd Project are no longer offering this Fellowship.
Fellowship Details
Through the Public Voices Fellowship, AcademyHealth and The OpEd Project brought new voices into the public conversation and highlighted the need for more innovative approaches to address systemic and structural barriers in health and health services research. As voices for science innovation, fellows were encouraged to imagine and advocate for more inclusive and representative approaches to formulating research questions, creating incentive structures, engaging partners, training researchers, working with data, and disseminating findings.
The fellowship curriculum explored authority, equity, innovation, and action in an unfair world. Fellows explored how credibility works, how ideas spread, when and why minds change, and how ideas play out over time and space.
The program included four virtual workshops and one-on-one coaching by leading journalists and editors. All participants committed to writing at least two opinion pieces during their fellowship.