Maternal & Child Health Center of Excellence.
We are proud to be one of thirteen MCH Centers of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science and Practice, funded for thirty years (1995-2025) by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources Service Administration.
Aim: To prepare emerging leaders in the field – design and manage community programs, advocate for justice in national policies, develop communication strategies, and participate on interdisciplinary research teams.
Core Values: health equity; racial, gender, and economic justice; and life course approaches to promote the health and well-being of women and all pregnant and parenting people, children, youth, and all families as they progress through the life course.
Goals:
- Develop curriculum infused with racial, social, and gender justice values and strengthen critical thinking, analytic, and writing skills.
- Strengthen a diverse MCH workforce prepared to lead in the movement for health equity and justice.
- Equip MCH trainees to work effectively as members of interprofessional teams.
- Generate, translate, and disseminate evidence that contributes to MCH practice across the life course.
- Engage trainees, faculty in innovative academic-community partnerships to enrich education, research, practice.
For more information please visit our Center website:
The Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health website is currently being updated. Please visit after October 1, 2020. In the meantime, please access the most current information here.
Professional Development and Leadership
Research and Practice Fellowships
Research Fellowship
Please visit the MCH Center of Excellence website for additional information, details of available opportunities, and applications for MCH Fellowships.
Director: Lois McCloskey, MPH, DrPH
If you have always wanted to work closely with faculty on a research team, the MCH Research Fellowship could be for you!
Matched to a faculty member and research project, Fellows participate as members of the research team, contributing to and learning about the research process—soup to nuts. Various aspects of the research process, from IRB applications to data collection and analysis to research management and writing. We typically offer 8-10 Research Fellowships each year.
MCH Research Fellows will:
- Receive a professional development stipend of $1500* paid in increments across the fellowship period
- Commit to 8-10 hours per week over a period of 11-12 months
- Attend regular research team meetings led by the faculty preceptor and colleagues
- Attend a “research fellow roundtable” once per semester (with all research fellows and a faculty member)
- Present their work at the annual MCH Forum at the conclusion of the fellowship period (early December)
- Submit an abstract and present at a national or regional professional conference (optional)
Research Fellowships may not be used as a practicum.
MCH Research Fellowship Flyer
Current Opportunities 2020-21
Practice Fellowship
Director: Trish Elliott, DrPH, MPH
We engage our community partners in the act of educating students, and students in the act of making a difference in community organizations through intensive, year long, supervised practice experiences. If this working with external organizations sounds appealing, the MCH Practice Fellowship may be a great opportunity for you!
Practice Fellows may choose to carve out a period of time and specific project/deliverable at the practice site and designate it as their MPH Practicum in collaboration with the Practice Office and field supervisor.
MCH Practice Fellows will:
- Receive a professional development stipend of $1500* paid in increments across the fellowship period
- Commit to 8-10 hours per week over a period of 11-12 months
- Have monthly professional development workshops with Trish Elliott
- Demonstrate major contribution to a professional work product related to the fellowship
- Present their work at our annual MCH Forum at the conclusion of the fellowship period (early December)
- Submit an abstract and present at a national or regional professional conference (optional)
MCH Practice Fellowship Flyer
Current Opportunities 2020-21
Requirements
Any MPH student (no certificate requirement). Must take MC725: Women, Children & Adolescents: A Public Health Approach OR GH881: Global and Perinatal Health in the spring semester.
How to Apply:
Completed Fellowship applications should be emailed to mchcoe@bu.edu by 11:59pm October 22, 2020. — 2020 Fellowship Application (downloads as a Word document)
Please contact the mchcoe@bu.edu with any questions.
*The Fellowships are supported by the federal HRSA/MCHB grant #2 T76MC000172500, and as such financial support is available only to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Foreign nationals may be selected as fellows if they choose to forgo the stipend.
Special Initiatives
Related MPH Certificates
Contact:
PI: Lois McCloskey, MPH, DrPH