Child HEalth Research Program for Post-doctoral Trainees
The Child HEalth Research Program for Post-doctoral Trainees (CHERPP-T) at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW) is a mentored, research project-based training program in health outcomes research that provides trainees with didactic training in rigorous health services and clinical research methodologies, and in population/patient-partnered approaches to research, experiential research training, career development, and a long-term network of mentors, collaborators, and partners for child health outcomes research.
In its first iteration, it was a 2-year research fellowship program in child health equity research, funded by NICHD (2020-2025), the Seattle Children’s Research Institute, and the UW Department of Pediatrics. Graduate-level coursework could be taken at the UW School of Public Health and ccould lead to a master’s level Public Health degree, if desired. The fellowship was housed within the UW Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics. The founding program directors were Tumaini R. Coker, MD, MBA, and Jason A. Mendoza, MD, MPH, faculty-scientists with expertise and NIH-grant funding focused on child health outcomes.
In its current iteration starting in 2025, CHERPP-T is funded by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the UW Department of Pediatrics. In order to meet the needs of early career faculty and post-doctoral fellow scientists, we have re-designed our curriculum to provide career development and child health outcomes research training in a monthly, interactive seminar series format. We accept post-doctoral trainees who already have post-doctoral funding through their home Department and/or Division, including ACGME fellows and other funded post-doctoral positions. Likewise, early career faculty will have existing funding, e.g., through their Department, Division, and/or the Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
For clinical fellow trainees, CHERPP-T will substantially contribute to their completion of ACGME research requirements. Likewise, for early career faculty, CHERPP-T will substantially contribute to their submission of career development awards and NIH R-level funding or equivalent. Doctoral level trainees (e.g., MD, DO, PhD) will complete the program with the skills and experience necessary to successfully engage in an independent research career focused on reducing differences in child health outcomes and meeting child health needs for different populations across multiple domains (biological, behavioral, physical/built environment, population- family environment, and healthcare system), and levels of influence on health (individual, interpersonal, neighborhood/locality, and societal), and on improving health outcomes at the level of the individual, family/organization, neighborhood/locality, and population. This program is unique in that one of its primary goals is to increase the number of researchers who are independently-funded scientists in child health outcomes research and who use population/patient-based participatory approaches to collaboration. All applicants will be considered.
For more information, including how to join, please contact us at cherppt@uw.edu.
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