Merck Graduate Fellowship Program in Health Economics

at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

In July 2003, the Merck Company Foundation awarded a three-year, $105,000 fellowship program to the Department of Population Health Sciences to support doctoral studies in health economics. The program is co-directed by Profs. John Mullahy, Dennis Fryback, and David Vanness of the Department of Population Health Sciences.

The Merck Fellowship Program entails doctoral training of an academically-deserving Population Health graduate student having primary interests in

• Health economics

• Health econometrics

• Health technology evaluation

The Merck Fellow will pursue coursework, independent reading, and dissertation research in some combination of four key areas:

• Microeconomics

• Econometrics

• Evaluation methodologies

• Health economics

The Merck Fellowship Program also involves cooperative scholarly activities involving the Merck Fellow, the Program's co-directors, and health economics researchers at Merck Research Laboratories.

For additional information, please contact John Mullahy at jmullahy@wisc.edu.