Funding Opportunities
The following organizations and university departments offer funding opportunities to Northwestern medical and MPH students interested in pursuing a global health experience abroad.
FSM Global Health Funding Opportunities
Global Health Initiative
Information for Students
Information for Residents
Global Health Initiative & Project C.U.R.E. - a new collaboration between CGH, the Global Health Initiative, and Project C.U.R.E. to provide medical supplies to clinics and rural areas where FSM students visit for away-rotations in resource-limited settings.
Organization: Feinberg School of Medicine and Chicago Lake Shore Medical Associates
Description: Funding is available to FSM medical students and select McGaw residents who wish to pursue a primary care rotation or related project in a medically underserved area abroad through the Global Health Initiative (GHI), established by Chicago Lake Shore Medical Associates (CLSMA).
Eligibility: Funding for FSM students and select McGaw residents who wish to pursue a four-week primary care rotation or related project in a medically underserved area abroad.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Materials due a minimum of 45 days prior to proposed travel date
International Health Fellowship
Organization: Feinberg School of Medicine
Description: The International Health Fellowship was established by the Feinberg School of Medicine to provide support to medical students who wish to conduct research projects at international sites.
Eligibility: M1, M3, M4 FSM students, who wish to conduct international research projects with field work lasting four to eight weeks.
Application Deadline/Start Date: October, 2012
Feinberg Travel Grant
Organization: Feinberg School of Medicine
Description: The Feinberg Travel Grant is meant to complement the awards given out via the Global Health Initiative by creating funds for clinical rotations and global health education programs at FSM affiliated partner institutions in Europe and Asia.
Eligibility: Support for four-week clinical rotations at FSM partner institutions in developed countries.
Application Deadline/Start Date: September 1 (M4s) / January 7 (M1s)
Funding Directory
Fogarty International Center
Organization: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Description: Fogarty International Center at NIH offers a variety of funding opportunities to support the field of global health research. Fogarty also offers a variety of resources for those seeking global health research funding across NIH, and from other organizations.
External Funding
AfyaBora Fellowship in Global Health Leadership
Organization: AfyaBora Fellowship in Global Health Leadership
Description: The Afya Bora Consortium aims to contribute to health systems strengthening in African partner countries by implementing a leadership training program targeting African and US health professionals. The Afya Bora (“better health” in Swahili) fellowship model will focus on training leaders for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and research program
Eligibility: Must be citizen of US, Kenya, Botswana, Uganda, or Tanzania AND have an MD or MBChB with a MMed, MPH, or Master’s degree in related field
Application Deadline/Start Date: January 2013
AIF Clinton Fellowship
Organization: American India Foundation
Description: The AIF Clinton Fellowship for Service gives a select group of young American professionals the opportunity to serve with Indian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for ten months. Fellows work in the three pillar areas of AIF: Public Health, Education, & Livelihoods.
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents who are at least 21 years of age and will have completed an undergraduate bachelor’s degree prior to starting this program.
Application Deadline/Start Date: February, 2013
AMWA Overseas Assistance Grant
Organization: American Medical Women’s Association
Description: The American Women's Hospitals Service (AWHS) provides small grants, up to $1,500, for assistance with transportation costs (airfare, train fare, etc.) connected with pursuing medical studies in an off-campus setting where the medically neglected will benefit.
Eligibility: National AMWA student or resident member. Medical students must be completing their second, third or fourth year at an accredited U.S. medical school.
Application Deadline/Start Date: A minimum of four months prior to proposed departure date.
Arnold P. Gold Foundation Summer Research Fellowship
Organization: Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Description: The Student Summer Research Fellowship grants are modeled on NIH short-term training grants, but are awarded for research into community health and cultural competency issues, rather than laboratory work.
Eligibility: Stipend of $3,000 are awarded for 10-week period to medical students in good academic standing at an accredited U.S. or Canadian school
Application Deadline/Start Date: March 1, 2013
Benjamin Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
Organization: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Description: Up to $1,000 for travel and living expenses to conduct research and/or receive clinical training at an international setting in tropical medicine / infectious disease.
Eligibility: Medical students from an accredited U.S. or Canadian medical school
Application Deadline/Start Date: March, 2013
The CDC Experience, Applied Epidemiology Fellowship
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: The CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship is a 10 to 12 month fellowship that provides training through hands-on experiences in applied epidemiology and public health.
Eligibility: Medical students are eligible upon completion of required clerkships during M3 year. Applications are generally submitted early in the M3 year.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Application process opens in September 2012 and ends January 2013
CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship
Organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Description: The CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship is designed to encourage students to think of public health in a global context. The fellowship provides an opportunity for third- and fourth-year medical and veterinary students to gain public health experience in an international setting.
Eligibility: FSM medical students may participate upon completion of their M2 or M3 year.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Application process opens in January 2013 and ends February 2013
Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia - HIVCorps Fellowship
Organization: Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia
Description: The fellowship provides the opportunity to gain important field experience in areas such as program implementation and management, clinical trials, community outreach and support, clinical care quality improvement systems, data management and outcomes analysis, laboratory systems in the developing world, rural primary health care and health information systems.
Eligibility: Medical, nursing, or MPH students from accredited university programs.
Application Deadline/Start Date: March
Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship
Organization: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Description: The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) provides support for one year of full-time clinical research training. The main goal of the program is to encourage medical students to pursue careers in clinical research.
Eligibility: Medical students are eligible upon completion of required clerkships during M3 year. Applications are generally submitted early in the M3 year.
Application Deadline/Start Date: TBD
Emerging Infectious Disease (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program
Organization: Association of Public Health Laboratories
Description: The EID Laboratory Research Fellowship is a two-year program designed for doctoral-level scientists to conduct high-priority research in infectious diseases.
Eligibility: U.S. citizens who will have completed their MD / PhD degree by program start date.
Application Deadline/Start Date: February, 2013
Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowship in Public Health
Organization: U.S. Department of State & Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Description: The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships have been established to promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource limited settings. Five support centers will act as leads for consortiums of U.S. universities and administer the program.
Eligibility: Medical students are eligible upon completion of required clerkships during M3 year. Applications are generally submitted early in the M3 year.
Application Deadline/Start Date: TBD
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Organization: U.S. Department of State
Description: The Fulbright Program provides funding for students, scholars, teachers, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
Eligibility: U.S. citizens at accredited U.S. intuition of high education with sufficient proficiency in language of host country.
Application Deadline/Start Date: September, 2012 (NU internal deadline)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellows Program
Organization: Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH)
Description: The new partnership presents a unique opportunity for students to conduct research in tuberculosis (TB) and HIV at K-RITH, a new cutting-edge research institute in Durban, South Africa. There are summer and year-long placements available.
Eligibility: Student in good standing at a medical, dental, or veterinary school located in the United States
Application Deadline/Start Date: January 11, 2013
Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars
Organization: Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Description: The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars provides supportive mentorship, research opportunities and a collaborative research environment for early stage investigators from the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to enhance their global health research expertise and their careers.
Eligibility: Postdoctoral Fellows and Doctoral Scholars
Application Deadline/Start Date: TBD
Global Health Service Corps
Organization: Global Health Service Corps (GHSC) represents a unique partnership between GHSC and the U.S. Peace Corps
Description: GHSC's mission is to promote and support new generations of US health professionals to serve as global health educators and work within countries facing critical human health care resource shortages. Their greater goal is, in collaboration with their partners, to create sustainable solutions to strengthen health systems.
Eligibility: Medical volunteers will include U.S. board eligible or board certified doctors in core specialties and nursing volunteers who have completed a BNS/MPH, MSN, NP, DRN, or PHD and have a minimum number of three years of both clinical and teaching experience. Core specialties for doctors are expected to include Internal Medicine, Pediatrics (and Medicine/Pediatrics), Family Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Surgery, or Psychiatry
Application Deadline / Start Date: TBD. 2012-'13 will be the inaugural year for GHSC.
Infectious Diseases Society of America Medical Scholars Program
Organization: Infectious Diseases Society of America
Description: The medical scholars program provides scholarships in the amount of $2,000 to medical students to promote the subspecialty of infectious diseases by attracting the best and brightest medical students to the field. Projects must focus on pediatric or adult infectious diseases and may involve either clinical or research activities.
Eligibility: Students in any year of an accredited U.S. medical school are eligible for this award.
Application Deadline/Start Date: March, 2013
Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program
Organization: National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Description: The MHIRT Program supports the ability of U.S. academic institutions to offer short-term international training opportunities in health disparities research for undergraduate and graduate students in the health professions who are from health disparity populations and/or are underrepresented in basic science, biomedical, clinical, or behavioral health research career field.
Eligibility: Undergraduate and graduate students in the health professions who are from health disparity populations and/or are underrepresented in basic science, biomedical, clinical, or behavioral health research career fields.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Varies by host institution.
NEWAID Foundation Fellowships
Organization: NEWAID Foundation
Description: The NEWAID Foundation provides research funding to public health students, encouraging their involvement with traditionally neglected infectious diseases in the developing world.
Eligibility: Current MPH students (or similar programs such as MS Epidemiology) enrolled at an accredited U.S. graduate institution. MD students and PhD students are not eligible to apply during this funding cycle, though NEWAID hopes to expand the program in the future.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Application opens in October 2012 and closes in January 2012.
NSEP Boren Scholarship
Organization: Institute of International Education & National Security Education Program
Description: Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations.
Eligibility: U.S. citizen enrolled or applying to a graduate degree program at an accredited U.S. university
Application Deadline/Start Date: January, 2013
South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR)
Organization: UCLA Program in Global Health
Description: The SAPHIR program is a year-long training program in comprehensive HIV prevention research for U.S. medical students and residents. Trainees will participate in a structured program of didactic education and practical research in one of the major fields of HIV prevention (Behavioral Prevention, Biomedical Prevention, Antiretroviral Therapy, Epidemiology, or Basic/Translational Science). Research sites are located in Lima, Peru and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Eligibility: Medical students must have completed the required third-year clerkships to be eligible and may participate between the third and fourth year of medical school. Applicants who have just completed their residency program but have not begun a fellowship may also be considered. Language proficiency in Spanish or Portuguese is recommended and considered an asset but is not required.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Rolling admissions for the 2012-2013 program
Schweitzer Fellowship
Organization: The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
Description: The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship helps hundreds of graduate students each year dedicate their time and service to helping others. The Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program is a one-year interdisciplinary fellowship program focused on community service, leadership development, and reflection.
Eligibility: Any student enrolled at least part-time for the 2011-2012 academic year in a health-related, graduate-level-degree-granting program in the Greater Chicago area is welcome to apply.
Application Deadline/Start Date: February, 2012
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Organization: Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Description: The fellowship honors and supports the graduate educations of 30 New Americans – permanent residents or naturalized citizens if born abroad; otherwise children of naturalized citizen parents -- each year with tuition and living expenses that can total as much as $90,000 over two academic years.
Eligibility: See website to review eligibility requirements for New Americans.
Application Deadline/Start Date: November, 2012
WHO Internship Programme
Organization: World Health Organization
Description: The World Health Organization (WHO) as the leader in global public health issues is committed to building future leaders in public health. WHO's Internship Programme offers a wide range of opportunities for students to gain insight in the technical and administrative programmes of WHO.
Eligibility: Enrolled in a degree programme in a graduate school (second university degree or higher) both at the time of application and during the internship. Have completed at least three years of full-time studies at a university or equivalent institution towards the completion of a degree. At least 20 years old. Possess a first degree in a public health, medical or social field related to the technical work of WHO or a degree in a management-related or administrative field. Fluent in the working language of the office of assignment.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Deadlines vary
USAID Global Health Fellowship
Organization: United States Agency for International Development
Description: The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) is a five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development. GHFP seeks to improve the effectiveness of USAID population, health, and nutrition programs.
Eligibility: U.S. citizenship or permanent resident, and master or other advanced degree in public health or a related field.
Application Deadline/Start Date: Deadlines vary
This page last updated Mar 11, 2013