National Academy of Medicine Fellowship Program
The 2024 Call for Nominations is Open Through April 26, 2024.
The American Academy of Nursing’s (AAN) National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Fellowship program provides talented scholars in nursing with the opportunity to experience and participate in evidence-based public health studies that improve the care and access to care of patients in domestic and global health care systems. NAM is one of three Congressionally chartered academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “that works to provide objective advice on matters of science, technology, and health.”
About the NAM AAN Fellowship
This two-year Fellowship program, exclusively designed for AAN Fellows to maintain their current position while contributing to the work of the NAM and the National Academies, will further facilitate the dissemination of nursing knowledge and expertise in key discussions that will impact health policy at the national level.
The AAN NAM Fellow will be immersed in a unique learning environment offered at NAM, paired with an elected NAM member for mentorship, and will be awarded a flexible research grant of $25,000 for the two-year period, which will be paid to their home institution to help advance the individual’s professional development. AAN NAM Fellows will be actively involved in producing reports and relevant study products while engaging with legislators, government officials, industry leaders, executives, scientists, and other health profession experts.
AAN’s mission to improve health and achieve health equity by impacting policy through nursing, leadership, innovation, and science is a cornerstone of this Fellowship. It builds and adds to the impact of NAM Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence program supported by AAN, the American Nurses Association, and the American Nurses Foundation, established in 1992. Having two distinct programs available to Academy Fellows to engage at the NAM further amplifies nursing expertise at this esteemed policy making body.