The Harvard School of Public Health's Office of Student Financial Services (OSFS) is committed to helping students with their search for external sources of financial assistance. The following list of websites has been compiled to assist students with researching possible scholarship/grant/fellowship opportunities that are specific to Public Health studies. The OSFS will periodically announce external opportunities that arise via broadcast e-mail.
EXTERNAL RESOURCES FOR:
Domestic Students
Domestic Students - Minorities and Women
International Students
Students Who Are Graduating/Have Graduated
OTHER:
Scholarship Search Engines
The Africanist Doctoral Candidate Fellowship Program
• Designed to provide for students working on African related dissertations.
Air and Waste Management Association
• For full-time graduate students who are pursuing courses of study and research leading to careers in air quality, waste management, environmental management/policy/law, and sustainability.
American Society of Safety Engineers (scholarships available for environmental health majors)
• Graduate awards are primarily for student pursuing a degree in occupational safety & health or a closely related field.
Association of Schools of Public Health - Listing of Internships and Fellowship Programs
• ASPH has a number of fellowship programs
Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association Scholarship Award Program
The Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association offers a $2,000 scholarship to encourage the study of environmental and occupational health, safety, and related disciplines. The program is open to all college undergraduate and graduate students in all majors/disciplines enrolled in 12 credit hours per semester, trimester, or quarter.
Centers for Disease Control
• A variety of public health training programs.
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
• The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element.
Claricode Medical Software Essay Scholarship
• Claricode is rolling out a scholarship program to the college students who can best answer in 500-1000 words, "How will medical software improve the future?"
The CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy
• A scholarship for students who can best answer in 500-800 words, "What is the most important thing the U.S. can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?"
Department of Defense: National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
• Intent is to increase the number and quality of scientists and engineers.
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship: Krell Institute fellowship funded by DOE
• Fellowship Mission: "Identify and provide support for some of the very best computational science graduate students in the nation"
Harvard Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment
• The Consortium is open to Ph.D. or Sc.D. students at Harvard who have completed at least one year in their home department or school and can demonstrate that participation in the Consortium will advance the goals of their research experience.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government (KSG)
• KSG has an extensive listing of external resources.
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
• Grants for Student Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Pre-doctoral Fellowships in biological sciences
• HHMI mission is to "support the efforts of scientists and educators, colleges and universities, museums, and biomedical research organizations"
Iowa State University - Division of Sponsored Programs
• Helpful grant and fellowship resource
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• In August 2009, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced that, going forward, they will award new graduate scholarships only to students who have received an undergraduate scholarship from the Foundation.
The Leopold Schepp Foundation
• The Foundation grants approximately 200 individual awards each year to both full time undergraduate students enrolled in four year bachelor programs and to full time graduate students.
Monroe E Trout PREMIER Cares Award
• Annual award recognizing the efforts of groups serving medically under-served popluations.
National Federation for the Blind (NFB)
• The NFB gives a broad array of thirty scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars.
National Health Service Corps
• This program, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration of HHS, provides scholarships to health professions students in return for a commitment to provide primary health services in critical shortage areas after graduation.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
US. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
http://grants.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm
• These websites provide grant funding opportunities, research contracts, training opportunities and information.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• This program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees, including women in engineering and computer and information science.
The NEW AID Foundation
• Available for Masters Students, in addition to doctoral and post-doctoral level research grants.
NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program
• A one-year clinical research training experience to advanced standing students in U.S. medical, osteopathic, or dental school; or students enrolled in doctoral level programs at U.S. schools of public health, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine.
PhRMA Foundation
• Supports young scientists in disciplines important to the pharmaceutical industry.
Pilot International Foundation
• The Pilot International Foundation sponsors three scholarship programs, The PIF/Lifeline Scholarship, The Marie Newton Sepia Memorial Scholarship, and The Pilot International Foundation Scholarship. Applicants for these scholarships must be preparing for, or already involved in, careers working with people with disabilities/brain related disorders.
Rappaport Institute Public Policy Summer Fellowship
• The fellowships offer 12 graduate students paid, 10-week summer internships in key state and local agencies in the Greater Boston area.
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship Program
• The goal of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship Program is to support highly talented graduate students in New England and California whose studies are directed toward improving environmental quality and who demonstrate the potential for leadership in their field.
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
• The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field.
Applicants need not be citizens of the United States; however, they must be candidates for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States. These fellowships are not intended to finance data collection or the completion of doctoral coursework, but rather to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation.
SSRC-International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships
• For International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF)...The IDRF program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences.
Tylenol Scholarship
• For outstanding students who are pursuing health-related studies.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
• Graduate Student Associate Positions, Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Dissertation Completion Fellowship
DOMESTIC STUDENTS - MINORITIES AND WOMEN
The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
American Indian College Fund
• Sovereign Nations Scholarship Fund to Benefit American Indian Students
American Indian Graduate Center
The ASPH/CDC/ATSDR Internship Program
• Minority Fellowship Program- under-represented minority students currently enrolled at doctoral level.
Association on American Indian Affairs
• Students who are of Native American or Alaskan Native descent may be eligible for scholarships being offered through the Association of American Indian Affairs.
Catching the Dream Scholarships
• For Native American students, both undergraduates and graduates in Mathematics, engineering, science, and computers are priority fields for one program.
Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities
• The pre-doctoral fellowships for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to research-based fields of study.
Gates Millennium Scholars
• The goal of The Gates Millennium Scholars Program is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential.
GEM Fellowship Programs - The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science
• Environmental Science; graduate fellowships at the MS and Ph.D. levels coupled with paid summer internships.
Hispanic Dental Association Foundation
• New-Colgate-Palmolive/HDA Foundation Scholarship for Hispanic Students Entering Master in Public Health Program
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund/Pfizer Fellowship Program
HUNAP - Harvard University Native American Program
• Links to financial aid available to Native Americans.
Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation - scholarships to Native Hawaiian students
• To provide educational opportunities for Hawaiians everywhere
Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Pre-doctoral Fellowships
Minority Scholarships, Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards in Medicine, Health and Related Fields
• Minority Scholarships, Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards in Medicine, Public Health and Related Fields.
• African Americans, Alaska Natives (Aleuts, Eskimos, Inuit), Hispanics (Chicano, Latino, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, South and Central American), Native Americans, Native Pacific Islanders (Native Hawaiians, Polynesians, Micronesians)
National Federation of the Blind Scholarship Program
• Each year, the NFB gives a broad array of thirty scholarships to recognize achievement by blind scholars.
NEA Scholarships for Hispanics
NMSU Indian Resource Development
NWRI Fellowship
• NWRI offers fellowships and scholarships to students interested in water resources.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
• "The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields."
P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education
• P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education (PCE) was established in 1973 to provide need based grants to women in the United States and Canada whose education has been interrupted and who find it necessary to return to school to support themselves and/or their families.
P.E.O. Scholars Award
• P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) was established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the United States and Canada who are either pursuing a doctoral level degree or engaged in postdoctoral research at an accredited college or university.
The Lucille and Edward R. Roybal Foundation Public Health Scholarship Program
• The purpose of the Roybal Foundation Scholarship Program is to provide scholarships to Hispanic Students in their Junior or Senior year or in a Graduate Program of an accredited College or University who are pursuing public health careers and wish to serve the interest of low-income Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
SACNAS Neuroscience Scholars Fellowship Program
• The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) offer Pre- and Postdoctoral Scholarships: to advance towards a health and research career in neuroscience.
Southwest Tribal Native American Research Centers for Health Scholarships
• The purpose of the Southwest Tribal NARCH Scholarship Program is to help American Indian and Alaska Native students pursue an education in public health. Fall 2009 marks the first round of scholarship funding.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
American Association of University Women- International Fellowship
Bank of Mexico - Loans for Students from Mexico
Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association Scholarship Award Program
The Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association offers a $2,000 scholarship to encourage the study of environmental and occupational health, safety, and related disciplines. The program is open to all college undergraduate and graduate students in all majors/disciplines enrolled in 12 credit hours per semester, trimester, or quarter.
Canadian Federation of University Women
• CFUW provides a range of awards and fellowships to women through its charitable trust program to encourage the development of high quality scholarship.
Claricode Medical Software Essay Scholarship
• Claricode is rolling out a scholarship program to the college students who can best answer in 500-1000 words, "How will medical software improve the future?"
The CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy
• A scholarship for students who can best answer in 500-800 words, "What is the most important thing the U.S. can do to improve global health over the next 15 years?"
The Edmund S. Muskie/FSA
• This Program is oriented towards students and professionals from the Former Soviet Union States
Education USA
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program
• The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) is a unique effort to identify emerging leaders from marginalized communities outside the United States. IFP fellows represent historically disadvantaged groups, including racial, ethnic and religious minorities and people living with disabilities.
Fulbright Scholarship
Fundacion Mexico en Harvard Fund
• Established to ensure that all Mexicans admitted to the graduate and post-graduate programs at Harvard University obtain the financial resources necessary to persue their dreams
Harvard Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment
• The Consortium is open to Ph.D. or Sc.D. students at Harvard who have completed at least one year in their home department or school and can demonstrate that participation in the Consortium will advance the goals of their research experience.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government (KSG)
• KSG has an extensive listing of external resources.
Harvard University Committee on African Studies
• Grants for Student Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Institute of International Education
• "IIE designs and implements programs of student and training for students, educators, young professionals and trainees from all sectors with funding from government agencies, foundations, and corporations. These programs include the Fulbright and Humphrey."
International Education Financial Aid
International Students Resource Center
Iowa State University-Division of Sponsored Programs
• Helpful grant and fellowship resource
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• In August 2009, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced that, going forward, they will award new graduate scholarships only to students who have received an undergraduate scholarship from the Foundation.
The Joint Japan World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJWBGSP)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
• The Kosciuszko Foundation annually awards a number of Fellowships/Grants to Poles for advanced study/research or teaching at universities and other institutions of higher learning in the United States. Eligibility: Only Polish citizens residing permanently in Poland. This program is NOT for Poles residing outside of Poland, nor those residing temporarily outside of Poland, whether or not engaged in research/study.
The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund
• "This award is for women from developing countries engaged in studies for a degree in the United States. The applicants are asked to demonstrate a commitment to working for the benefit of women and children in the developing world with the intention to return to their countries."
The O'Reilly Foundation
• For Irish/ Northern Irish only
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
• P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship (IPS) Fund was established in 1949 to provide scholarships for international women students to pursue graduate study in the United States and Canada.
Pilot International Foundation
• The Foundation administers Pilot International's Ruby Newhall Memorial Scholarship which is awarded to International students studying in the US and Canada.
Rappaport Institute Public Policy Summer Fellowship
• The fellowships offer 12 graduate students paid, 10-week summer internships in key state and local agencies in the Greater Boston area.
Rotary International
The Lucille and Edward R. Roybal Foundation Public Health Scholarship Program
• The purpose of the Roybal Foundation Scholarship Program is to provide scholarships to Hispanic Students in their Junior or Senior year or in a Graduate Program of an accredited College or University who are pursuing public health careers and wish to serve the interest of low-income Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
• The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field.
Applicants need not be citizens of the United States; however, they must be candidates for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States. These fellowships are not intended to finance data collection or the completion of doctoral coursework, but rather to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation.
SSRC-International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships
• The IDRF program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences.
Tylenol Scholarship
• For outstanding students who are pursuing health-related studies.
STUDENTS WHO ARE GRADUATING/HAVE GRADUATED
Department of Veterans Affairs
•Under the VA Student Loan Repayment Program, employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs may be eligible to receive up to $10,000 per year, with a lifetime maximum of $60,000, to help repay student loans.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) and Cancer Prevention Fellowship-MPH
National Health Service Corps jobs often involve repayment assistance for a significant amount of student loan debt for those entering particular medical fields. Corps members who want to work in approved sites in Health Professional Shortage Areas, receive $50,000 toward repayment of their health professions student loans, in addition to a competitive salary, which is paid by the employing site.
The NIH Loan Repayment Program
SCHOLARSHIP SEARCH ENGINES
Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) website
Caltech Fellowships Advising and Resources Office
The College Board's web site with a free scholarship search
FASTAID
Claims to be "the world's largest and oldest private sector scholarship database".
Fastweb
A free scholarship search tool
Federal Aid (Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants)
Finaid.org
"The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid"
The Foundation Center's Grantmaker Information Directory
FreSch!
A database of over 2,000 organizations and foundations that offer scholarships, representing approximately 169,000 awards.
IRIS Database
MACH25
A free scholarship search provided by CollegeNET.