The MCHC/RISE-UP Program provides opportunities for enhanced public health leadership training to focus on elimination of health dispartities and promotion of health equity. Grant funding awarded by the CDC to develop a national consortium of institutions and universities built on the Leadership Education and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities training framwork. All scholars interested in reducing health disparities and promoting social justice, especially scholars from underrepresented populations in the field of public health, are strongly encouraged to apply.