All questions regarding financing your education at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health can best be fielded directly by the Office of Financial Aid. The Office of Financial Aid website has a fund finder for scholarship/grant information. There, you will find an assortment of opportunities; please look through those and their criteria to ensure you qualify for a particular funding opportunity.
The Admissions Office also lists Harvard Chan Grant/Scholarships on their website here with instructions on how to apply. A Harvard-wide scholarship list on that link also requires separate applications and deadlines, so please review it thoroughly. Finally, there are external scholarship resources listed here.
Please review the tabs below for more information on fellowships and funding from other Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health departments.
Fellowships at Harvard Chan School (updated: October 17, 2022)
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health trains hundreds of fellows annually. For more information on fellowship and residency opportunities and any new fellowships that are added, please click here.
The Bernard Lown Scholars in Cardiovascular Health Program
The Science and Innovation Fellowship
Ethical Issues in Global Health Research Fellowship
Fellowship in Cancer Prevention Control
Training Program in Molecular Metabolism (MMTP)
Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residency
Parker B. Francis Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Research
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biostatistics
Fellowships for Harvard Students (updated January 30, 2023)
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation/China Programs Student Research Grants
The Ash Center’s China Programs financially support Harvard University students pursuing China-related internships, independent research, and other forms of study conducted in China during winter and summer academic vacation periods.
Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
The Initiative seeks Harvard graduate students to work with staff and faculty on projects that support participating cities, research, and curriculum development. The Initiative’s work with cities creates an opportunity to inspire a future generation of city leaders. Harvard graduate students will have the opportunity to gain experience in city government by working on real-world city issues. In so doing, students can provide immediate value to participating cities and contribute to emerging research.
Committee on General Scholarships, Harvard University
The Committee on General Scholarships administers special financial aid, scholarship, and fellowship programs that support Harvard University’s international and domestic graduate students.
Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellows
The Djokovic Science and Innovation Fellowship supports the dissertation research of Harvard University doctoral students whose independent research aligns with the mission of the Center, which is to drive science-based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for children facing adversity.
Global Mental Health Fellowship – NEW!
The Global Mental Health Fellowship was established in 2022, to provide students with opportunities to partner with organizations outside the U.S. to address mental health issues in their communities.
Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Fellowship in Public Health for the Mississippi Delta – NEW!
The Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Fellowship in Public Health for the Mississippi Delta is awarded to Harvard Chan students in support of community-engaged projects that address the health and well-being of Mississippians. Fellows join other Community Engaged Learning Fellows in a community of learning and scholarship.
John C. & Katherine Vogelheim Hansen Research and Travel Fund for Africa
This fellowship aids undergraduate, DrPH, and GSAS students planning to travel to Africa for an international experience and is especially interested in supporting those experiences and projects related to science and health. The Vogelheim Hansen Fund typically covers all transportation expenses.
Harvard University Asia Center – NEW!
Grants and fellowships offered by Harvard University’s Asia Center
Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery – Dubai/Graduate Student Research Award
The Harvard Graduate Student Research Award will support advanced graduate students from Harvard University working on a dissertation or thesis research that addresses some of the most pressing health challenges in Dubai, the UAE, and the Center’s region.
Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program – Tessa Jowell Fellowship for Student Research
Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program announces the Tessa Jowell Fellowship for Student Research, open to students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Kennedy School, and Graduate School of Education.
Harvard Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (Culture Lab Innovation Fund + Express Grants)
The Culture Lab Innovation Fund (CLIF) awards grants to Harvard students, faculty, staff, fellows, and personnel to pursue ideas that advance a culture of belonging on campus. Ideas should identify a critical challenge around diversity, equity, inclusion, or belonging. Proposals should aim to have a direct impact on the Harvard community and align with the University’s goals towards lasting inclusive excellence.
The University Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging awards Express Grants to Harvard students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and researchers to pursue innovative ideas that will create learning opportunities, contribute to enhancing diversity initiatives, and catalyze culture change.
Presidential Public Service Fellowship Program, Harvard University
Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship (PPSF) program supports a broad range of summer opportunities that serve the common good. Our Fellows are involved in meaningful projects that affect communities across the United States. They are active in programs that focus on education, the arts, and government; work in social services and human rights organizations; and seek improved outcomes in health, the environment, and the justice system.
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston; Public Policy Summer Fellowship
The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston encourages graduate students to spend part of their careers in public service through a paid, 10-week summer internship in key state and local agencies in the Greater Boston area.
Rose Service Learning Fellowship
The Rose Service Learning Fellowships are funded by a generous gift from Dr. Deborah Rose, SM ’75 to support students and post-doctoral fellows at Harvard Chan to engage in service learning projects in the U.S. or abroad. There are currently two funding cycles per year, in the fall and spring.
Women in Public Policy Program (WAPPP)
The Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) provides stipends to Harvard graduate students for field placements that focus on closing gender gaps. Over the past decade, WAPPP has supported over 130 students to work in at least 53 different countries, including Afghanistan, Colombia, India, Jordan, Liberia, Nepal, South Africa, and the United States.
Fellowships listed by the Office for Career Advancement
For more information on fellowship opportunities, please view the listings here.
Office of Student Affairs Funding
Professional Development Support Fund
Students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are fully engaged and are interested in taking advantage of opportunities to participate in co-curricular and academic experiences such as attending or presenting at professional conferences or development seminars, and by organizing their own events such as seminars, panels, symposiums, etc. As a result, a Professional Development Support Fund was established. The goal of the fund is to reduce individual students’ costs to participate in or organize experiences that contribute to their professional development.
Click here for more information.
Student Hardship Fund
The Student Hardship Fund is designed to provide temporary, short-term financial assistance to students in degree programs who are managing demanding academic requirements while struggling with unanticipated or emergency financial situations. Unlike a loan, students are not expected to repay awards from the Student Hardship Fund. The fund will be managed by the Office for Student Affairs. Please be aware that this fund is limited and not all requests will be met with financial assistance.
Click here for more information.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Harvard University
The Center welcomes applications from graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in various disciplines whose research involves important international, transnational, global, and comparative national issues that may address contemporary or historical topics, including rigorous policy analysis, as well as the study of specific countries and regions outside the United States.
The Weatherhead Center has been fortunate to receive significant financial support for student research. The generous gifts of Albert and Celia Weatherhead, for whom the Center was renamed in 1998, assist the operation of the Center generally and student programs in particular. For a list of graduate student and postdoc funding opportunities, please click here.
External Funding (updated: January 30, 2023)
American Academy of Family Physicians
Various scholarships, grants, and funding opportunities in Global Health
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
AAUW awards fellowships and grants to “more than 13,000 scholars and organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Gaum and 150 countries, one of the largest scholarship programs for women in the world”. There are funding opportunities for domestic and international applicants.
American College of Healthcare Executives
The purpose of this directory is to provide a list of available postgraduate administrative fellowships to students and early careerists and provide a place where sponsoring organizations may promote their fellowships and increase visibility for these programs. This is not a comprehensive list of all available fellowships nationwide.
American Indian Education Fund (AIEF)
AIEF offers competitive graduate scholarships to eligible American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian students pursuing a Masters’s or Doctoral degree.
Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)
ASPPH is a funding finder with a list of scholarships, fellowships, and grant opportunities.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Promote programmatic innovation and support the foundation’s ability to solve complex problems by accessing exceptional, global talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
BIPOC Scholarship from Point Foundation
BIPOC Scholarship from Point Foundation provides financial, coaching and community support to Members of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Generations of racism and an education system born from discriminatory policies have made clear that BIPOC students face greater obstacles to educational achievement. When these challenges are combined with those faced by students who also identify as LGBTQ, the impediments can make a higher education degree seem impossible. Point aims to mitigate these issues by providing financial support, community resources, and professional development.
CareerOneStop
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, CareerOneStop is a scholarship finder with thousands of scholarship, fellowship, and grant opportunities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – NEW!
There are various “hands-on, full-time fellowship programs for those with a doctoral degree or recent doctoral graduates. All offer a unique experience in one of many public health fields”.
Concern Worldwide: Program on Humanitarian Leadership
Concern helps the world’s extremely poor and most vulnerable recover from disaster, fight malnutrition and deadly diseases, strengthen their resilience to climate extremes, and more.
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
The mission of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) is to advance the global Black community by developing leaders, informing policy, and educating the public.
The Cory L. Richards Memorial Scholarship
Provides financial support to students who plan to devote their careers to advancing public policy related to sexual and reproductive health and rights and seek advanced degrees in public health or public policy.
Echoing Green Fellowship for Emerging Health Leaders
Echoing Green works to catalyze the ability of emerging public health leaders to impact the world and drive social progress further and faster. Our fellows are innovators, instigators, pioneers, and rebels who drive positive social change, improving healthcare and health policy worldwide. With an unrivaled commitment to bold new ideas, they have the potential to change patterns across society.
Fellowships for students FROM China enrolling in Harvard University Graduate Studies
These fellowship funds support citizens of China enrolling in graduate degree programs. Candidates must have financial needs as determined by the Harvard school where they plan to enroll.
Fulbright Foreign Student Program via Laspau
The global network of Fulbrighters fosters mutual understanding between the United States and partner nations, advances knowledge across communities, and improves lives around the globe. Laspau administers a part of the Fulbright Program, which provides grants to individuals from Latin America and the Caribbean for graduate study in the United States.
Harvard University Center for African Studies (Africa)
The Center for African Studies offers funding to Harvard graduate students traveling to Africa for thesis research, internships, or study abroad. Grants require a minimum stay of eight weeks in Africa.
HBNU Global Health Fellowship
The HBNU Fogarty Global Health Training Program offers 12-month mentored research fellowships in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) designed to address some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. The fellowship is available to U.S. pre-and post-doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral fellows from LMICs
Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)
HRSA programs support health infrastructure, including training health professionals and distributing them to areas where they are needed most, providing financial support to healthcare providers, and advancing telehealth.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Founded in 1975, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) empowers students and parents with the knowledge and resources to complete higher education while providing support services and scholarships to as many exceptional students, Scholars, and Alumni as possible.
India and Pakistan “Seed for Change” Competition (Harvard University South Asia Institute)
The Seed for Change Program aims to develop a vibrant ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship in India and Pakistan through an annual competition run by the Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI), in which grant prizes will be awarded to interdisciplinary student projects that positively impact societal, economic, and environmental issues in India and Pakistan.
Indian Health Service
The federal health program for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
John C. and Katherine Vogelheim Hansen Research and Travel Fund for Africa
This fellowship aids undergraduate and graduate students planning to travel to Africa for an international experience and is especially interested in supporting those experiences and projects related to science and health. The Vogelheim Hansen Fund typically covers all travel expenses.
Luce Scholars Program via Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships – Travel to Asia
The goal of the Luce Scholars Program is to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society. The program is aimed at a group of highly qualified young American in a variety of professional fields who have limited experience in Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia.
National Academies Fellowships
The Fellowships Office administers predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior fellowship awards for the 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.
National Institutes of Health
NIH has a list of institutional training grants to provide individual research training opportunities (including international) to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral trainees. NIH also has a list of individual fellowships that domestic and international students can apply to.
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Seeking 30 most promising New Americans who will make distinctive contributions to American society, culture, or their field.
Philanthropic Education Organization (PEO)
The P.E.O. Scholar Awards was established in 1991 to provide substantial merit-based awards for women of the U.S. and Canada pursuing a doctoral-level degree at an accredited college or university.
Presidential Innovation Fellowships
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program brings the principles, values, and practices of the innovation economy into government through the most effective agents of change we know: our people. This highly competitive program pairs talented, diverse individuals from the innovation community with top civil servants to tackle many of our Nation’s biggest challenges, and to achieve a profound and lasting social impact.
Presidential Management Fellowships
To become a PMF (Presidential Management Fellowship), you must participate in a rigorous, multi-hurdle process. It takes patience and endurance but also gives you a chance to demonstrate your leadership ability and potential. As a PMF, you will have earned your place in the program, and the opportunity to grow professionally, serve your country, and make a difference!
Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation
The Switzer Fellowship offers one-year fellowships to highly talented graduate students from diverse academic and personal backgrounds in New England and California whose studies and career goals are directed toward environmental improvement and who demonstrate leadership in their field.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funds a wide array of research and initiatives to help address some of America’s most pressing health challenges.
Tylenol Future Care Scholarship
Each year the makers of TYLENOL® award annual scholarships to well-deserving students pursuing careers in healthcare.
