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  • Scholarships and Funding Opportunities in Global Health

    Securing funds for a global health service trip can be challenging for students and residents. These resources help you take the first step in planning your international medicine trip. The list of resources is not comprehensive, but it provides information about available funding and directs you in your search.

    Select a listing for more information:

    International Travel Scholarships

    Funding for Fellowship and Training Programs

    Global Health Scholarships for Students and Residents

    Directory of Non-NIH Funding Opportunities – Grants and Fellowships

    This directory includes a variety of international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research. It provides information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the field of global health research.

    Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program

    This program provides opportunities for physician-in-training scholars during their residency and career physician scholars for 6-week rotations overseas. Program sites vary. In previous years they were in Eritrea, Honduras, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam.

    International Travel Scholarships

    Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) International Health Studies Grant Program

    Students and resident physician members of the MMS are eligible to apply for grants up to $2,000 to defray the costs of study in another country. The MMS will donate sufficient funds to the Foundation to underwrite five grants annually, although future provisions may be made to invite private or corporate donations to expand the size and/or number of grants. 

    American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Overseas Assistance Grant

    The AMWA provides grants up to $1,000 for assistance with transportation costs (airfare, train fare, etc.) connected with pursuing medical studies in an off-campus setting where the medically-neglected benefit.

    Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine

    This award provides round trip airfare and up to $1,000 toward living expenses for medical students proposing electives in clinical tropical medicine with at least one month at a site endemic for tropical communicable diseases.

    Sara’s Wish Foundation Scholarship

    Sara’s Wish offers scholarships for extraordinary young women committed to making the world a better place by defraying the costs associated with traveling to all areas of the globe.

    Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships

    This award is for outstanding students entering their third year of medical school who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care. Awardees will have demonstrated leadership efforts in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of minorities in the United States.

    Funding for Fellowship and Training Programs

    Global Health Program for Fellows & and Scholars

    The Program supports one year of mentored clinical research training at a site in resource-limited resource and transitional countries. It  Aalso provides a stipend for an international graduate student to work alongside the U.S. trainee during the clinical research year.   

    Fulbright

    Fulbright Sscholarships for offer international exchange opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.

    The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Fellowship

    Medical students may apply for either the research fellowship or the service fellowship, which includes a $4,000 stipend for a 10-week period. 


    International Health Opportunities Databases and Directories

    Find additional opportunities through these online sources: