to send doctors overseas
Johnson & Johnson has given $525,000 to the Physician Scholars in International Health Program at the School of Medicine to foster physician involvement in foreign countries.
This is Johnson & Johnson's third grant to the program in three years, bringing their total support to over $1 million. The grant will help fund the national scholar award for physicians and residents from the United States to work internationally. The program has established 16 sites in underserved areas overseas where the U.S. physicians work during the scholar program.
This year 83 physicians received Yale/Johnson & Johnson Scholar Awards. The initiative has been designated a signature Johnson & Johnson Program and offers stipends to physicians in training, academia, active practice or post-retirement.
"Thanks to Johnson & Johnson's generosity, hundreds of physicians have been able to travel to areas of the world where their skills and knowledge are greatly needed and they, in turn, have been exposed first-hand to the health care issues and problems facing these communities," says Dr. Dennis Spencer, interim dean at the School of Medicine and the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery.
The International Health Program at Yale is directed by Dr. Michele Barry, professor of medicine and global health, and Dr. Frank Bia, professor of medicine and laboratory medicine. Barry and Bia founded the program in 1981. More information can be found at www.info.med.yale.edu/ischolar.
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