Health and Aging Policy Fellows 2014

Grant Summary

Partnering with The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Hartford Foundation Board approved a $1.6 million grant to the Health and Aging Policy Fellows (HAPF) program to support an additional 44 fellows over the next three years who will bring geriatric expertise to policymakers and in turn receive intensive training in policymaking through placements at key agencies and offices in the federal government. Added to the 67 fellows who will have participated in the HAPF program’s first six cohorts, the new fellows will form a network of 111 aging-focused professionals who, individually and collectively, are poised to help shape policy that improves the health of older adults. The HAPF program is the nation’s only fellowship that targets aging and health issues. In addition to The Atlantic Philanthropies, which approved a $4.7 million HAPF grant in March, Hartford is joined in support of the program by the American Political Science Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute on Aging, and the Administration for Community Living, among others. The fellows will coordinate policy change efforts with the Hartford Change AGEnts Initiative, a program that also lives within the Foundation’s Leadership in Action portfolio.

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