American health care study scholarship
Award
Harkness Fellowship Awarded for study of healthcare practice and policy in the United States for students from abroad Sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund Formerly called The Commonwealth Fellowship Established 1925 Website
www.commonweathfund.org
The Harkness Fellowship (previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship ) is a program run by the
Commonwealth Fund of New York City. This fellowship was established to reciprocate the
Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States.
[1]
Recipients of the scholarship include a president of the
International Court of Justice ; former chairman and CEO of
Salomon Brothers ; a former Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge ; the controller of
BBC Radio 4 ; the editor of the
Sunday Times ; former directors of the
Medical Research Council , the
London School of Economics and the
General Medical Council ; and a vice president of
Microsoft .
History
The
Commonwealth Fund is a philanthropic foundation established in the
United States by
Anna Harkness in 1918. Her son,
Edward Stephen Harkness , initiated the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships in 1925. These were intended to reciprocate the
Rhodes Scholarships by enabling British graduates to study in the United States. In 1927 the scheme was widened by the creation of Dominion Fellowships available to graduates from universities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. In 1929 a further category of Dominion Civil Service Fellowships was established. The awards were tenable from nine to fifteen months and candidates were to be under the age of 40.
In 1961 the Fellowships were renamed the Harkness Fellowships. In addition to the Civil Service Fellowships, a new category of General Fellowships was set up, open to people in the fields of business, banking, politics, creative arts and journalism. The maximum tenure period was extended to 21 months.
Since June 1997, the activities of the Harkness Fellowships have been limited to the field of health care. The Fellowships are now considered one of the most prestigious award programs in health policy, and accept Fellows from
Australia ,
Canada (known as Harkness Associates ), France,
Germany , the
Netherlands ,
New Zealand ,
Norway (as of 2009),
Switzerland (as of 2009) and the
United Kingdom .
[2] They are tenable for twelve months.
Current fellowship program
Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy & Practice spend a year conducting research at American institutions such as
Harvard University ,
Brigham and Women's Hospital ,
Columbia University ,
Stanford University ,
Johns Hopkins University ,
Kaiser Permanente , or the
Veterans Health Administration . They gain an in-depth understanding of the U.S. health care system and policy challenges, enhance their research skills, and develop contacts and opportunities for ongoing international collaboration.
In addition, Fellows attend a program of seminars during the year:
September: Orientation and
Qualitative Research Methodology Workshop
November: International Symposium on
Healthcare Policy, bringing together Health Ministers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States
February: Washington Policy Briefing held on
Capitol Hill with members of the
United States Congress and senior government officials
May: Canadian Policy Briefing on Federal and provincial health
June: Final Reporting Seminar and the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting
Administration and funding
The programme is funded and administered by the
Commonwealth Fund of
New York City , with additional support for some Fellows coming from external bodies,
[3] namely:
Notable alumni
Professor
David Armitage , transnational historian
Professor
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby , British botanist and educator
[7]
Professor
Peter Atkins , professor of chemistry at
Oxford University
[8]
Professor Sir
Jonathan Bate , Shakespeare scholar and biographer
Professor
Patrick Bateson , emeritus professor of
ethology at
Cambridge University
[9]
Professor
Tim Beaglehole , chancellor of the
Victoria University of Wellington
[10]
J.G. Farrell , novelist.
[11]
Sir
Harrison Birtwistle , composer
[12]
Professor
Colin Blakemore , neurobiologist and former chief executive of the
Medical Research Council
[13]
Sir
Ronald Bottrall , Cornish poet
Professor
Hugh Brogan , historian and biographer
[14]
Sir
George Malcolm Brown , geologist
[15]
Professor Sir
Roy Calne British surgeon who performed the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant
[16]
Sir
Graeme Catto , president of the
General Medical Council
[17]
Reverend Professor
Sarah Coakley , Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity at the
Harvard Divinity School
[18]
Justin Connolly , composer
Alistair Cooke
KBE , journalist and broadcaster of
Letter from America
[19]
Professor Sir
Steven Cowley Theoretical Physicist and Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Dr
Nigel H Croft , Quality Expert, and key architect of the
ISO quality management standards (
ISO 9001 )
Professor
Nicholas J. Cull , historian
[20]
Professor
Marcus Cunliffe , former visiting professor of American studies at
Harvard University
[21]
Mark Damazer , controller of
BBC Radio 4 and
BBC 7
[22]
Sir
Howard Davies , director of the
London School of Economics and Political Science
[23]
Sir
Peter Maxwell Davies , composer, conductor and
Master of the Queen's Music
[24]
Professor
Glyn Davis , vice-chancellor of the
University of Melbourne
[25]
Stuart Devlin , goldsmith and jeweller to
Her Majesty the Queen
[26]
Dr
Jennifer Dixon , CBE, FRCP, FFPH, Chief Executive of the
Health Foundation
Professor
John Montfort Dunn , emeritus professor of political theory at
King's College, Cambridge
[27]
Professor
John Dupré , philosopher
[28]
Freeman Dyson , scientist
[29]
Sir
Harold Evans , former editor of the
Sunday Times
[30]
Sir
Terry Farrell , architect of the
MI6 Building
[31]
Professor
Pamela Gillies , principal and vice-chancellor of
Glasgow Caledonian University
[32]
Fiona Godlee , editor,
BMJ
Lawrence Goldman , historian and editor of the
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
[33]
Anthony Green
RA , painter
[34]
Karl W. Gruenberg , British mathematician
Nigel Hall RA, sculptor and draughtsman
Professor
Jonathan Harvey (composer)
[35]
Tom Hayhoe , chairman of
West London NHS Trust
Alastair Hetherington , editor of The Guardian , 1956–1975
Tony Hey
CBE , academic and corporate vice-president of technical computing at
Microsoft
[36]
Dame
Rosalyn Higgins , president of the
International Court of Justice
[37]
Ronald Hilton , British-American academic who helped uncover the
CIA ’s clandestine preparations for the
Bay of Pigs invasion
[38]
Professor
Masud Husain
FMedSci Neurologist
[39]
Peter Jenkins , journalist
The Hon.
Shane Jones , New Zealand politician
[40]
Professor
Ralph Kekwick
FRS Biochemist
Bridget Kendall MBE, diplomatic correspondent for the
BBC
[41]
Graeme Koehne , Australian composer and chair of the
Australia Council 's music board
[42]
Rem Koolhaas , architect and principal of
OMA
[43]
Sally Laird , writer, editor and translator
[44]
Professor
Nicola LeFanu , composer
[45]
Professor
Koen Lenaerts , professor of
European Law and judge at the
European Court of Justice
[46]
Sue Lenier , English poet and playwright
[47]
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill , politician
[48]
Michael L'Estrange
AO , Australian public servant and former Australian
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
[49]
Gwyneth Lewis , Welsh poet, the first
National Poet for Wales
[50]
Professor
David Lodge , British author
[51]
Piers Mackesy , military historian
Professor
Roger Marsh , composer
Dr
Martin Marshall , Chair of the
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
Sir Deryck Maughan , former chairman and CEO of
Salomon Brothers
Keith Milow , artist
[52]
Julian Mitchell , FRSL, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Jan Morris
CBE , historian and travel writer
[53]
Professor
Geoff Mulgan , former director of policy at
10 Downing Street and director of the
Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
[54]
Baron Murray of Newhaven , British academic
Sara Nathan OBE, broadcast journalist and regulator
Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger , rabbi and social reformer
[55]
Peter Nicholls (writer) , Australian literary scholar and critic
[1]
John Nicolson (journalist and broadcaster)
Professor
Claus Offe , political sociologist
[56]
Professor
Derek Parfit , philosopher
[57]
Baron Penney , physicist responsible for the development of British nuclear technology
Peter Phillips , artist and pioneer of
pop art
[58]
Professor
Randolph Quirk , British linguist,
[59] former
Quain Professor at
University College London .
Professor Dame
Anne Marie Rafferty
DBE , British nurse, currently Professor of Nursing Policy
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery ,
King's College London and President of the
Royal College of Nursing , UK.
Peter Sands , Group Chief Executive of
Standard Chartered plc
[60]
Malcolm Singer, composer, conductor and Director of Music, Yehudi Menuhin School
Richard Smith , painter and printmaker
Randolph Stow , Australian writer
[1]
Andrew Sullivan , writer, blogger and gay rights activist
Professor
Barry Trimmer , biologist and creator of the world's first soft-bodied robot
[61]
Professor
Rudolf G. Wagner , sinologist
[62]
Professor Sir
David Wallace , director of the
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of
Churchill College, Cambridge
[63]
Professor
Denis Weaire , Irish physicist
[64]
Brett Whiteley , Australian artist
[65]
Professor Sir
David Glyndwr Tudor Williams , former
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
[66]
Professor
Jonathan Wolff , former chair of philosophy at
University College London .
[67]
Adrian Wooldridge , Washington bureau chief and "Lexington" columnist for
The Economist
[68]
Professor
Esmond Wright , historian
[69]
Hugo Young , British journalist
[70]
Professor Sir
Erik Christopher Zeeman , mathematician
[71]
Ruth Louisa Cohen CBE, economist
[72]
Professor
Christina Pagel , Health services researcher and mathematician, Director of the UCL Clinical Operational Research Unit
[73]
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