Fellows will acquire research skills in design, methods, and analysis through bimonthly seminars and journal clubs, as well as formal coursework. Fellows will identify a research mentor and question of interest during their first year and will further develop and implement their projects during the following two years. The projects may be clinical, educational, or advocacy related. Fellows will present their scholarly work at biannual Works in Progress sessions with faculty advisors. 

Fellows have the opportunity to enroll in a Master of Public Health degree program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health or in other appropriate programs. Fellows will also be asked to complete several research and career development courses through the Biostatistics and Research Design Center and the Offices of Fellowship Training and Graduate Medical Education. 

Examples of previous fellowship projects include: 

• Relationship of parental behaviors to child sleep duration 

• Impact of developmental screening in primary care on referral patterns 

• Development and implementation of an electronic referral form 

• Development of an algorithm for management of acute otitis media 

• Referral and treatment patterns among primary care eczema patients 

• Maternal depression and patient resource utilization 

• Resident experience with primary care transformation 

• The association of urbanicity with infant sleep duration 

• The Online Advocate: Health related social problems and children’s diet quality 

• Healthy Habits, Happy Homes: Randomized trial to promote home routines for childhood obesity prevention