ABOUT
Stipend recipients will receive a total of $3,000 of financial support which will be distributed in three $1,000 increments, one increment per quarter in most cases.
NOTE: CHAS Doctoral research stipends are intended to support original health policy and services research that is supervised by a CHAS Fellow, or CHAS-affiliated faculty member; stipends are not intended to support dissertation research.
ELIGIBILITY & EXPECTATIONS
- Students must be actively enrolled, and in good academic standing with University and are expected to be in residence for the entire period of their stipend support.
- Awardees must attend weekly Davis Lectures (Tuesdays, 12:00-1:30pm) and other relevant CHAS events.
GUIDELINES:
CHAS Doctoral Stipend Application Details
APPLY:
Please submit the application/proposal to: chas@crownschool.uchicago.edu
TIMELINE
Application Due
Recipients Announced
Stipend Start Date
Stipend End Date
May 26, 2023
July 2023
September 2023
June 2024
CURRENT STIPEND RECIPIENTS
Shereen Abu Bader
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
“Mental Wellness, Health, and Utilization Conceptualization within the Palestinian Bedouin Culture”

Linyun Fu, MSW
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Examining the Effectiveness of a School-based Mental Health Preventive Intervention for Rural Children in China: A Quasi-experimental Study”

Chinasa U. Imo
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Assessment of Community Participation in Primary Healthcare Planning and Management in Honduras”

Eunseok Jeong, MSW
Doctoral Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Examining the Intersection of Cultural and Structural Barriers: Understanding Inaccessibility of Mental Health Services among Asian American”

Caroline Kelly, AM
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Medicaid Expansion of Mental Health Services in Chicago Public Schools”

Melanie Nadon, MPA
PhD Candidate, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“The Intersections of State-Level Variations in Social Policies and Systemic Child Welfare Outcomes”

Lauren Peterson, MPH, MA
Doctoral Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Gender Differences in Health Care Use and Spending for Medicaid Patients Diagnosed with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) by Principal Outpatient Care Setting”

Clarice J. Robinson
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“What’s it like outside? Prison Conditions and the Health and Well-being of Black Prisoners”

Elizabeth Sanchez, MSW
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Exploring the Epistemic Perspectives on Conceptualizing Mental Health While Accounting for Power Across Asian American and Latinx Immigrant Family Generations”

Jiebiao Wang
PhD Student, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate the Causal Effect of Government Medical Subsidies on Parental Mental Health within Families that Include Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in China”

Durrell Malik Washington Sr., MSW
PhD Candidate, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
“The Intersections of State-Level Variations in Social Policies and Systemic Child Welfare Outcomes”