Eligibility:
Only Columbia graduate students are eligible.
Graduate students from any of Columbia’s schools whose work is related to any aspect of precision medicine are invited and encouraged to apply.
Description:
Precision Medicine—an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person—raises a myriad of cultural, political, and historical questions that the humanities are uniquely positioned to address. As part of its overall Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia is initiating a broad based exploration of questions that precision medicine raises in law, ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities, which we believe will establish the University as the center for scholarship relating to precision medicine and society. The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture Project will be the first of its kind to bring Columbia faculty from the humanities, social sciences, law, and medicine into dialogue with leading scholars from the United States and abroad to discuss how humanistic questions might enhance our understanding of the ethical, social, legal, and political implications of precision medicine research, and to inform humanists about evidence, evaluation, and research outcomes from serious interdisciplinary engagement with this emerging medical field.
The working group provides an excellent opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary discussion, networking, and other work related to recent developments and the future of precision medicine and society. The project is co-directed by Rachel Adams, PhD (Columbia University), and Maya Sabatello, LLB, PhD (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons).
Graduate fellows will be expected to attend all meetings (6 public events followed by working group meetings led by visiting scholars during the academic year); read circulated materials prior to the meetings and take part in conversation; assist with promotion and publicity for meetings on Columbia’s campuses; and otherwise support and facilitate the work of the group. Fellows will receive a $2,500 stipend for the year. Applicants with disabilities and applicants belonging to minority groups are encouraged to apply.
Eligibility:
To apply, please submit a one-page letter of interest, CV, and informal transcript to Liz Bowen ([email protected]) by April 22. Questions about this fellowship and the project more generally can be sent to this email as well. Successful applicants will be notified by May 31, 2016.
