The fellowship is designed to recognize, assist and train students working on research or practice-based unintentional injury prevention projects from the perspective of health education or the behavioral sciences. Applicants must be enrolled as a full time student in a graduate or undergraduate degree program in health education, health promotion, behavioral sciences or a related field. Occupation-related injuries and violence projects will not be considered for this fellowship. Recipients will be required to submit a brief, mid-year progress report in early June, 2000. Projects may be related to surveillance, risk factor identification, or intervention development, evaluation or dissemination.
Projects related to the development or use of theory in injury prevention are also acceptable.
Specific criteria include the following.