Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Grant Program

The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Grant Program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports postdoctoral research awards for faculty from historically marginalized backgrounds. This initiative aims to cultivate leaders in academic medicine, dentistry, and nursing, fostering a diverse healthcare workforce. By promoting career development and addressing health disparities, the program enhances the capacity of leaders to influence health equity and improve health outcomes for underserved populations.

The sheer scale and complexity of the systems change needed to dismantle structural racism requires RWJF to take bold, creative steps to support leaders who are committed to addressing structural racism. Our leadership programs will equip leaders, particularly those in positions of power, with the skills and support needed to lead in transformative and equitable ways.
The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program (AMFDP) offers four-year postdoctoral research awards to faculty from historically marginalized backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing. We seek leaders whose background, identity, or lived experiences have positioned them to contribute to the program’s goals.
This program supports the development of faculty to enhance their influence as leaders, researchers, and advisors in supporting a Culture of Health, in which everyone has the chance to live the healthiest life possible. AMFDP applicants should be committed to: developing careers and achieving senior rank in academic medicine, dentistry, or nursing; fostering the development of succeeding classes of physicians, dentists, and nurses from historically marginalized backgrounds; and improving the health of underserved populations or working toward understanding and eliminating health disparities