Funding Opportunities


Funding for graduate programs can come from a variety of sources, including but not limited to:

• Departmental (partial awards on a yearly basis for returning students)
• Doctoral training grant stipend/tuition awards (NIH funding through department)
• Non-institutional awards (selective private/partial awards specific criteria for eligibility)
• Loans and grants through Student Financial Services
• Loans/scholarships that may be available from the student’s home country or state

While the department makes every effort to secure as many funding opportunities for new
and returning students, there is no guarantee that every student will receiving funding. Students
are encouraged to seek out as many different sources of funding as early as possible.

Funding & Resource Guide

Funding Opportunities for Doctoral Students and Post-Doctoral Affiliates

Harvard Chan School Funding for Doctoral Students and Postdocs who are in the Department of Epidemiology

The following fellowships partially cover 1-2 years of tuition and include a stipend. Students must submit the application by Feb. 1 for decisions in late February/early March

Conference  Funding Opportunity

MacMahon Funding is available for Masters and Doctoral Students  who are in the Department of Epidemiology

Brian and Heidi MacMahon Fund
Brian MacMahon, SMH ’53, Professor of Epidemiology, Emeritus the Department of Epidemiology is able to support educational activities for graduate students in the form of financial support for those attending and presenting at conferences related to Public Health and Epidemiology.

Apply here
Please submit a complete application to Caroline Huntington at chunting@hsph.harvard.edu

ALL FIELDS: FUNDING AND FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION AND INFORMATION
Request Additional Information Regarding Postdoctoral Fellowships and Funding
Online Application for Postdoctoral Fellowships and Funding
Request Additional Information Regarding Predoctoral Fellowships and Funding

Travel Funding 
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Cancer Epidemiology
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Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology
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Environmental Epidemiology
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Curriculum Guide

Infectious Disease
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Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric (RPP) Life Course Epidemiology
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Training in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Suicide Prevention

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For questions about the above training grant opportunities for predocs and postdocs, please reach out to Beth Hodshon at bhodshon@hsph.harvard.edu and Allison Hakioglu at ahakioglu@hsph.harvard.edu

F. ASISA

The objective of the F. ASISA Fellowship is to enhance the international clinical research capacity by fostering the training of investigators with the necessary expertise to address critical public health issues. The emphasis of the Fellowship will be on the use of health care data, artificial intelligence, and advanced causal inference methods to produce valid and relevant evidence from real world databases.

Fellowship information

COMET Fellowship

Application Instructions

Application Form

Statement Form

Harvard Chan School Funding for all Doctoral Students

Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention 

Harvard Chan School Funding for all degrees

Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts is the official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.  It includes listings for pre and post-doctoral training grants and fellowships (T & F series) as well as research grants (R series) and career development awards (K series).  The guide is published on a weekly basis and can be accessed here.

Graduate funding links