Outside Fellowships
Fellowships are advanced training opportunities generally offered after the completion of a degree. Fellowships are generally short-term and focus on the professional development of the fellow. Participating in a fellowship program can be a great way to transition into a long-term career.
*Please note that the following list is not comprehensive. If you would like to suggest a fellowship program to be added to the list, please send an email to gwsphcareer@gwu.edu.
Note: Deadline dates are provided in order to give a general idea of a fellowship's application period. Please check the fellowship or organization website for the most up to date deadline information.
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Doctoral |
The American Association for the Advancement of Science manages and administers Science & Technology Policy Fellowships in five program areas to provide the opportunity for accomplished scientists and engineers to participate in and contribute to the federal policymaking process while learning firsthand about the intersection of science and policy. |
Policy |
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Masters |
The purpose of this area is to provide students and early careerists with a list of available postgraduate administrative fellowships, and to provide a place where sponsoring organizations may promote their fellowships and increase visibility for these programs. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Various |
Ashoka Fellows are leading social entrepreneurs who we recognize to have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to change patterns across society. They demonstrate unrivaled commitment to bold new ideas and prove that compassion, creativity, and collaboration are tremendous forces for change. Ashoka Fellows work in over 60 countries around the globe in every area of human need. |
Entrepreneurship |
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Masters |
ASPPH fellowships provide recent graduates of ASPPH members with public health training experiences based at federal agencies, state/local health departments, and on Capitol Hill. The duration of the fellowships ranges from 12-24 months depending on the program. |
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Association for Prevention Teaching and Research Fellowships |
Various |
APTR fellowships give recent graduates and early career professionals an opportunity to work in public health and preventive medicine interest areas. Fellows gain leadership experience and train with leading experts in the fields of prevention and public health. |
Prevention |
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Experienced |
Candidates should be experienced U.S.-based, working journalists who qualify for AHCJ professional membership and have expertise in health reporting. The fellowship is designed to enable fellows to work independently over a one-year period while still maintaining their regular employment. AHCJ fellowship leaders will provide support and guidance through seminars, conference calls and e-mail consultations. |
Communications, Journalism |
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College seniors, recent college |
The program targets ethnically diverse candidates and applicants who have a passion for ethnic or cultural diversity. All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to promoting ethnic and cultural diversity through their work, education and life experiences. It provides six- to 12-month paid Fellowships — with benefits — professional development opportunities and a mentor program. Fellows will contribute to client projects while rotating among account teams, gaining practical experience in the field of integrated communications from some of the industry’s best counselors. |
Communications |
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Various |
Through its fellowship and traineeship programs, APHL prepares students for careers in public health laboratories and supports specialized training for practicing scientists. |
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Environmental Health |
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Various |
Resources for healthcare administration fellowships |
Healthcare Administration |
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Masters |
California Epidemiologic Investigation Service (Cal-EIS) is a one or two-year program for promising but green epidemiologists to gain hands-on experience working with an epidemiologist preceptor in either local or state health departments in California. |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
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Masters |
A successor to the Mayor's Urban Fellows Program that was established in 1985, the Capital City Fellows Program is a 18-month management recruitment program for recent graduates of master’s degree programs in public administration, public policy, urban planning and related fields to work for the city of Washington, DC. |
Government, Policy |
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Masters |
Each summer, CARE USA hosts a Visiting Fellows Program offering a small number of graduate students with support from outside sources the opportunity to work with projects and conduct research in various CARE Country Offices. |
Global Health |
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Catholic Relief Services International Development Fellows Program |
Graduate |
The Catholic Relief Services' International Development Fellows Program (IDFP) gives people who are interested in a career in international relief and development an opportunity to increase their overseas experience and gain exposure to our programs. Each year, CRS places approximately 20-25 Fellows with our country programs overseas. Assignments are for 8-12 months, starting in early September. |
Global Health, International Development |
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Varies |
Public Health Training Fellowships. The CDC is looking for motivated students, graduates, and health professionals for a variety of exciting public health training programs. |
Evaluation |
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Doctoral |
The Center offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars from this country and abroad. Since 1954, CASBS fellowships have been awarded to scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines. These include the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological sciences. |
Behavioral Science |
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Graduate |
State Policy Fellows tackle domestic policy challenges in areas like health care, taxes, anti-poverty policy, education and public safety. Working in independent, highly respected think tanks located in state capitals, Fellows analyze the impact of state budget and tax policy choices on low-income residents and promote positive reforms. |
Policy |
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Chesapeake Research Consortium's Environmental Management Career Development Program |
Masters |
The CRC Environmental Management Career Development Program is an excellent opportunity for individuals interested in environmental science and/or management to gain professional, working experience in Chesapeake Bay policy development and implementation while at the same time expanding personal skill sets and growing professionally. |
Environmental Health |
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Masters |
CSTE, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), has established this Fellowship to train recent graduates in the expanding field of applied epidemiology. The goal of the Fellowship is to provide a high quality training experience and to secure long-term career placement for Fellows at the state or local level. Participating fellows will receive two years of on-the-job training at a state health agency under the guidance of an experienced mentor. |
Epidemiology |
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CSTE/CDC/ASPH Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program |
Masters |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), the Association of State Health Officials (ASTHO), the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), and the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), has established this Fellowship to train recent graduates in the expanding field of applied public health informatics. The goal of the Fellowship is to provide a high quality training experience and to secure long-term career placement for Fellows at the state or local level. Participating Fellows will receive one year of on-the-job training at a local or state health agency under the guidance of experienced mentors. |
Informatics |
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Masters |
The David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowship is a distinguished postgraduate fellowship in health policy. The object of the Fellowship is to provide a unique opportunity for promising students to learn about the political system through direct exposure to the roles of both the public and private sectors in health policy development. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend and related expenses for a twelve-month period from July to June. |
Policy |
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Masters |
The Deland Fellowship Program in Health Care and Society prepares professionals to be leaders of tomorrow’s health care institutions. During this one-year fellowship, appointees develop skills which are fundamental to the operations of an academic and community-based medical center. |
Healthcare Administration |
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18 years of age or older |
Through our two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity of their social enterprise. |
Entrepreneurship |
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Bachelors |
The Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program is a social justice program that trains, inspires, and sustains leaders. Fellows gain field experience fighting hunger and poverty through placements in community based organizations across the country, and policy experience through placements in Washington, D.C. The program bridges community-based efforts and national public policy, and fellows develop as effective leaders in the movement to end hunger and poverty. |
Hunger, Poverty, Policy |
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Bachelors |
The Villers Fellow works as a full-time policy analyst in Families USA’s Health Policy Department. The Fellowship is based in the Families USA office in Washington, D.C. and is designed to provide the Fellow with a national perspective on health care justice work and the opportunity to learn about a range of health care justice issues. The Fellow’s principal responsibilities include conducting primary and secondary research on a range of health care issues and health reform topics—such as Medicaid, Medicare, the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the private insurance market—as well as writing and contributing to publications that are relevant to current health reform issues. |
Policy, Justice |
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Bachelors |
The Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice is designed to foster the advancement of social justice through participation in health care advocacy work that focuses on the unique challenges facing many communities of color. Through this fellowship, Families USA hopes to expand the pool of talented social justice advocates from underrepresented economic, racial and ethnic minority groups, including American Indian & Alaska Native, Asian American, Black/African American, Latino, and Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander communities. |
Advocacy, Justice |
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Doctoral |
The FDA offers a two-year Fellowship Program, which provides an opportunity for health professionals and scientists to receive training and experience at the FDA. Fellows will train at FDA's White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Maryland or at other FDA facilities. |
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Informatics |
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Masters |
This program is administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) and allows recent postgraduates (postdoctoral, predoctoral, and postbaccalaureate) an opportunity to initiate and conduct independent or collaborative research that complements projects at the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR). |
Toxicology |
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Doctoral or Experienced |
The Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program is designed to award grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative 2 to 6 week projects at host institutions in over 100 countries worldwide. |
Global Health |
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Masters |
Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings. |
Global Health |
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Bachelors |
Global Health Corps (GHC) aims to mobilize a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity. |
Global Health |
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Medical Students |
Support Centers for the Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars will provide supportive mentorship, research opportunities and a collaborative research environment for early stage investigators from the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), as defined by the World Bank, to enhance their global health research expertise and their careers. |
Global Health |
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Masters |
GHFP-II fellows work in a variety of global health technical areas ranging from maternal and child health to nutrition to HIV/AIDS. Each fellow has a specific scope of work and placement site within USAID or with one of its implementing partners. GHFP-II Fellows work full time for two years with the possibility of extending their fellowships for an additional two years. |
Global Health, HIV/AIDS |
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Government Operations Leadership Development (GOLD) Fellowship |
Bachelors |
GOLD Fellows receive individual attention designed to enhance their formal education and provide real world experiences. The Fellows will grow as leaders by following a developmental road map and develop their skills in a specialized field as they take on projects of high importance and large visibility. |
Government |
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Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Bell Fellowship |
Doctoral |
The Bell Fellowship Program provides opportunities for research and leadership training in a flexible, 1 or 2 year non-degree program for researchers and practitioners in the field of population and development. |
Population, Development |
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Masters |
The Administrative Fellowship at Henry Ford Health System (HFHS), in southeast Michigan, provides an unmatched opportunity to develop leadership and management skills within the complexities of a highly-integrated health system, create and implement solutions to pressing operational, strategic, and community-based challenges, and build a powerful professional network with HFHS's nationally and internationally respected physician and administrative leaders. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Bachelors |
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, established in 1987, is a highly-competitive national fellowship program that provides college graduates with the opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and security. |
Environmental Health, Peacekeeping |
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Masters |
The HHS Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) is a competitive, two-year, paid, federal internship within HHS. The program provides interns with a unique opportunity to develop enhanced leadership skills in one of the largest federal agencies in the nation. HHS is looking for talented and highly-motivated individuals with a commitment to public service. The program provides an excellent opportunity for participants to begin a professional career in HHS. |
Government |
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Masters |
The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal ISNA Fellowship Program offers the opportunity to receive education and training in non-profit management and philanthropy and prepares Muslims graduate students to become effective and knowledgeable leaders of non-profit organizations in North America. |
Nonprofit Management |
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Doctoral |
Applications for training fellowships are invited from junior scientists wishing to complete their training in those aspects of cancer research related to the Agency's mission: to coordinate and conduct both epidemiological and laboratory research into the causes and prevention of cancer. Disciplines covered are: epidemiology (including genetic and molecular), biostatistics, bioinformatics, and areas related to mechanisms of carcinogenesis including molecular and cell biology, molecular genetics, epigenetics, and molecular pathology. There is an emphasis on interdisciplinary projects. |
Cancer, Epidemiology, Biostatistics |
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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Post-Graduate Fellowship |
Doctoral |
The Post-Graduate Fellowship (PGF) is an intensive training program that provides opportunities for self-directed research and interdisciplinary collaboration in health metrics. |
Health Metrics |
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ISPOR Directory of Fellowships in Pharmacoeconomics, Health Economics, and Outcomes Research |
Various |
ISPOR Directory of Fellowships in Pharmacoeconomics, Health Economics, Outcomes Research or Related Field of Study |
Health Economics, Research |
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Masters |
Johns Hopkins Medicine provides unique postgraduate training in health services management through a 2-year program that spans the combined entity of Johns Hopkins Health System and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Doctoral |
In honor of the late Joseph L. Fisher, president of Resources for the Future (RFF) from 1959–1974, RFF will award fellowships for the coming academic year in support of doctoral dissertation research on issues related to the environment, natural resources, or energy. |
Environmental Health |
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Kaiser Permanente Postgraduate Fellowship in Health Care Administration |
Masters |
The Postgraduate Fellowship in Health Care Administration (the fellowship program) recognizes talented early careerists who can develop their skills and leadership potential in a dynamic and unique environment. The fellowship program is structured to maximize the learning opportunities for fellows as well as to support the operational needs of the organization. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Bachelors |
This database summarizes and links to fellowships and internships in health policy and related fields. The database includes fellowships located across the United States that are available to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. |
Policy |
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Various |
The Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program trains emerging leaders in the fight to end hunger worldwide. It is a unique two-year program that combines field and policy work. |
Global Health, Hunger, Policy |
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Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Postgraduate Fellowships |
Various |
Pre and Post Doctoral Fellowships in Cancer Research |
Cancer |
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Masters |
The Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Fellows Program is a 20-month policy training and leadership development program that targets early to mid-level policy professionals who are committed to eliminating health disparities nationally and globally. |
Policy, Health Disparities |
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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Administrative Fellowship Program |
Masters |
The primary intent of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Hospital Administrative Fellowship Program is to offer early careerists an opportunity to develop their leadership style and to use their skills and competencies in the day-to-day operations of a large, academic, specialty not-for-profit hospital. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Massachusetts General Hospital Administrative Fellowship Program |
Masters |
The Administrative Fellowship Program is a two-year program designed to provide health care professionals with essential hospital management and administration training in ambulatory care and inpatient settings. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Masters |
The Mayo Clinic Administrative Fellowship Program is a postgraduate fellowship that fosters the development of outstanding individuals committed to careers in health care administration. |
Healthcare Administration |
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National Research Center for Women and Families Lenora Moody Fellowship |
Masters |
Fellowships are available for college graduates, graduate students, and professionals on sabbatical or making a career change who can work at least half-time for at least six months. Most Fellows have at minimum a master’s degree. |
Career Change, Policy, Maternal & Child Health |
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Bachelors |
NWF Fellowships allow students to pursue their vision of an ecologically sustainable future through tangible projects to confront global warming on campus and in the community. Fellows gain practical experience in the conservation field and first-hand knowledge of the challenges and opportunities inherent in successful conservation efforts. |
Conservation |
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Doctoral |
The fellowship program brings visiting scholars in health services research-related disciplines to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in Hyattsville, Md. for a period of 13 months to conduct studies of interest to policymakers and the health services research community. |
Statistics, Policy |
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Doctoral |
The NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program provides postdoctoral training opportunities in cancer prevention and control. The purpose of the program is to train individuals from a multiplicity of health sciences disciplines in the field of cancer prevention and control. |
Cancer, Prevention |
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Masters |
Pre and Post Doctoral Fellowships in Cancer Research |
Biostatistics, Cancer, Epidemiology |
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Doctoral |
Our program is a postdoctoral research training program that provides intensive training in human sexuality research as applied to HIV prevention and HIV-related health interventions. The major components of our program are academic course work, the development of research and professional skills, and the conduct of independent research. |
Behavioral Science, HIV/AIDS |
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Bachelors |
The Urban Fellows Program is sponsored by The City of New York and administered by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). The program is designed to introduce America's finest college students and graduates to local government and public service. |
Government |
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Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Educational and Research Experiences |
All |
Academic fellowships and scholarship, research experiences, sabbaticals, and internship opportunities |
Research |
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Doctoral |
The Pasteur Foundation administers this fellowship program to bring U.S. postdoctoral researchers to work in any one of the 130+ Institut Pasteur laboratories in Paris. |
Research |
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers |
The Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program (formerly known as Fellows/USA) is a graduate fellowship program that offers financial assistance to returned Peace Corps Volunteers. All Fellows complete internships in underserved American communities, allowing them to bring home, and expand upon, the skills they learned as Volunteers. These skills in adapting to new cultures, developing and managing projects, dealing with language barriers, and leveraging limited resources attract the attention of prospective schools. |
Peace Corps |
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Various |
The Population Council’s fellowship programs have helped advance the careers of social and biomedical scientists, public health researchers, and program managers throughout the world. The work of Council fellows has fostered research and informed the creation of population, health, and development policies and programs. |
Population, Development |
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Bachelors |
A number of schools offer postbaccalaureate premedical programs to assist individuals to pursue a medical career after they have already received a Bachelor's degree. The purposes of these programs vary. This searchable database enables you to search according to program type and other program characteristics. |
Medical School |
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Masters |
The PMF Program is a flagship leadership development program at the entry level for advanced degree candidates. |
Government |
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Various |
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet. |
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Masters |
The Save the Children REACT Fellowship Program has been established with the goal of increasing the organization’s capacity to respond to children’s needs in emergencies. The REACT Program will create a cadre of bright, enthusiastic and specialized young professionals who can quickly and successfully be deployed in humanitarian response programs. |
Maternal and Child Health |
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Masters |
Internship and Fellowship Opportunities in Science |
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Masters |
A program to complement graduate studies in healthcare or association management |
Healthcare Administration |
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Doctoral |
The Kellogg Health Scholars Program invites you to learn about our unique program to develop future leaders committed to achieving health equity and eliminating health disparities. Our two-year postdoctoral fellowship program invites applicants to join a growing cadre of leaders skilled in research on the social determinants of health, academic-community partnering, community-based participatory research, and application of research to strengthen advocacy and achieve policy change. |
Advocacy, Health Disparities, Policy |
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The National Academies Policy and Global Affairs Fellowships |
Various |
The Fellowships Office (FO) of the National Academies administers predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior fellowship awards on behalf of government and private/foundation sponsors; these fellowship awards play an important role in the career development of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and scholars for the academic, federal, industrial and international workforce. |
Policy, Global Affairs |
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U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps JRCOSTEP and SRCOSTEP Program |
Bachelors, Masters |
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps offers three excellent opportunities for students to serve their country while completing or continuing their education. If you are interested in a public health career, we encourage you to apply to the Junior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (JRCOSTEP) and/or the Senior Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (SRCOSTEP). |
Government |
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Masters |
These Schweitzer Fellows -- mostly university graduate students -- partner with community-based organizations to identify an unmet health need, design a yearlong service project with a demonstrable impact on that need, and bring that project from idea to implementation and impact -- all on top of their usual graduate school responsibilities. |
Community Health |
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Masters |
The Administrative Fellowship program at the UAB Health System (UABHS) provides qualified individuals a comprehensive training experience in health care management to complement and enhance the foundations of their academic programs. |
Healthcare Administration |
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Masters |
UNICEF’s Young Professional Programme recruits young talent with the potential to grow into managerial and leadership positions in the organization. We are searching for skillful, creative individuals to grow with us - young leaders to help fulfill our mandate for the 21st century, in all areas of UNICEF's work, including Programme, Communication, Emergencies and Operations. |
Global Health, Communications |
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Masters |
The Fellowships Programme is a core activity of UICC and currently administers five international fellowships and plays a major role in the Organisation's mission and vision. The fellowships provide opportunities for professional development for cancer investigators, clinicians, nurses, and cancer society staff and volunteers. |
Cancer |
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Bachelors |
Founded in 1964, the White House Fellows program is one of America's most prestigious programs for leadership and public service. White House Fellowships offer exceptional young men and women first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the federal government. |
Government, Policy |
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Doctoral |
The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation supports early postdoctoral research training in all basic biomedical sciences. |
Biomedical Sciences |