Financial Support / Funding
International Nursing Group
- A Student Organization -
This page contains starting ideas for financial support of students and scholars interested in traveling abroad, in order either to study or to obtain experience on global public health topics.
Funding Opportunities
- International Nursing Group - Marcia L. Hoy Scholarship
Note: The Hoy Scholarship is no longer available, as of Jan. 2010.
- Rainer's Fund International Health Travel Grants
Deadline: April, 2006
Grants are available to UCSF students who are interested in completing a health-related project in a third world country lasting two or more months. Acceptable projects must place health in the context of communities, cultures, and ecosystems and may include work in primary care, public health, research (preferably community oriented), or a combination of all three.
While on site, students should live and travel in a style similar to the people with whom they are working. The competitively awarded grant covers travel and living expenses for two months.
Prerequisite: completion of Epi. & Biostat. 180.10, Topics in International Health, in Winter quarter, and approved application for funding.
For more information, please visit: http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/intlprograms/Programs/Rainer.aspx
- New Aid Foundation Fellowships
Applications due: December
The New Aid Foundation provides grants to graduate students to conduct research abroad on abandoned infectious diseases in marginalized populations.
These include, but are not limited to, tuberculosis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, filariasis, and dengue fever. The research projects should have a ten to twelve week duration, and are typically completed during the summer.
A stipend of $3500 to $4500 plus airfare is provided. Only research which examines the distribution of disease, its causes, or appropriate interventions will be funded.
All applicants must have completed two semesters of graduate level education. While it is not required that applicants be concurrently enrolled in a graduate program of public health, students enrolled in other programs must demonstrate a strong commitment to public health and must have taken courses in public health research methods including epidemiology and/or biostatistics.
For more information, please visit www.newaid.org
- NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC) Clinical Research Training Experience
Deadline: January
The NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC), the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Association of Schools of Public Health sponsor a program offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate level U.S. students in the health professions. The Ellison Medical Foundation is providing support to the FIC for this program. This is an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in a diverse group of countries, such as Botswana, Brazil, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia. The one-year Fellowships begin with an extensive orientation program on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD in July. This will be followed by approximately 11 months of intense research training at the foreign site.
For more information, please visit: http://www.aamc.org/overseasfellowship
- Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships
The Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships aim to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries.
These scholarships are for study in another country where there is another Rotary Club. The scholarships include awards for trips three- to ten-months long for intensive language study and cultural immersion, and funding for study abroad at an academic institution for one or more years.
Recipients are expected to be ambassadors of goodwill through appearances before Rotary Clubs and schools. The number and types of scholarships offered vary from year to year and are determined by each Rotary district.
For more information visit http://www.rotary.org/foundation/educational/.
- Fulbright Program
Students who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs at U.S. colleges or universities must apply through the Fulbright Program Advisers (FPA) on their campuses. Each institution sets its own campus deadline for Fulbright applications, which will be earlier than the IIE deadline.
Consult the FPA to determine the deadline at your college or university. Campus deadlines usually are between mid-September and early October. Applicants must collect all supporting documents, e.g., foreign language report, references, transcripts, etc., and submit them with the hard copy application to their campus FPA.
Supporting documents must be received by the FPA in their original sealed envelopes with the signature or stamp of the individual or institution across the flap. Applicants must also submit the application electronically in order to give access to the application to the FPA.
The FPA will arrange for campus interviews of all Fulbright applicants from their campuses. Upon completion of the campus interviews, the FPA will forward applications (electronically and in hard copy) to the Institute of International Education by the October 21, 2005 deadline.
For more information, see http://www.fulbrightonline.org/us/thinking_enrolledatlarge.html
- Collaborative Projects on Mexico-California Migration and Health Issues
The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) and the California-Mexico Health Initiative (CHMI) are sponsoring a special call for proposals from teams of UC and Mexican researchers for collaborative projects in research, public policy, public service, and education related to health and migration in California and Mexico.
Each proposal must be co-directed by an eligible principal investigator from a UC campus and one from a Mexican academic or research institution. To support this collaboration, a Bi-National Researchers Directory has been established by CMHI. The maximum grant amount is $40,000 for 1.5 years.
For more information, the directory, application forms, and instructions can be accessed at http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/cmhi.html.
- UC Pacific Rim Research Program Grants
The University of California Pacific Rim Research Program sponsors a competitive grants program that supports collaborative research by UC faculty, graduate students, and their colleagues at other institutions by providing funding for promising new lines of investigation.
Graduate students are encouraged to apply, but must obtain sponsorship from a faculty member who will have budgetary and oversight responsibilities. Successful proposals include: focus on interactions or major issues affecting the Pacific Rim region and specific to it,
comparative investigation across national, cultural, linguistic and/or regional boundaries, and collaboration of scholars in different countries (faculty sponsorship or institutional affiliation from host country).
For more information, please visit: http://www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/.
- Alpha Eta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau
The Alpha Eta Chapter (#29) (at UCSF) of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing sponsors an annual Margretta Madden Styles Award for Excellence in Nursing Research, Education, Practice, and Administration.
For more information, please visit, http://nurseweb.ucsf.edu/www/sigma.htm.
- Kennedy (Harvard) and Joint Japan/World Bank Scholarships
The Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School for Government and the Joint Japan/World Bank announce scholarships for study toward a Master's of Public Administration in International Development to prepare leaders for service to democratic societies.
For more information, contact: Office of International Development Programs, Tel: (617) 495-2133; fax: (617) 495-9671; e-mail: idprograms@harvard.edu
- European Program for Intervention Epidemiology Training
The European Program for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), funded by the European Union and member states, Norway, and the World Health Organization, invites applications for eight fellowships to conduct a 24-month training program in communicable disease epidemiology.
For more information, contact Fax: 33-1-41-79-68-40; Email: epiet@invs.sante.fr
- Open Society Institute
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant-making foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.
On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.
OSI initiatives award grants, scholarships, and fellowships on a regular basis throughout the year. Applicants can determine their eligibility and view relevant initiatives and application guidelines.
For more information, see: http://www.soros.org/grants/application/grant_apply_step_1_view
Other Global Health Resources
Course Options
UCSF School of Nursing Courses
- N248 Global Health and International Nursing, Winter 2005
UCSF Curriculum in Global Health
Additional Resources (Non-UCSF)
- University of California, Berkeley: International Health Concentration. The School of Public Health offers specialty area study in international health for students enrolled in any of the School's discipline-based programs.
This is a non-admitting program that provides an opportunity for students and faculty from different academic programs to explore issues in international health.
For more information, please see: http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/degrees/areas/spec_ih.htm
- University of London, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Long Distance Master Program on Public Health. The Department of Public Health & Policy carries out research in environmental factors and health, health policy, health promotion, and health services.
The main thrust is to link public health, policy and practice through research and analysis. This is undertaken by the largest multidisciplinary group in Europe focused on public health, with epidemiologists, statisticians and mathematicians, economists and policy analysts working together with anthropologists, sociologists, historians, psychologists and geographers.
Amongst these disciplines, the key health care professions are well-represented by doctors, nurses and pharmacists (http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/studying/).
- WHO Health Academy eLearning Courses. The Health Academy strengthens both education and health. In keeping with the effort to provide education for all, it transforms learners from passive recipients of information to active participants in knowledge acquisition. Using the eLearning technology, it provides hands-on practice with automated feedback giving the learner immediate correction of errors, and offers effective learning and instruction at the learner's own pace.
For more information, see: http://www.who.int/healthacademy/courses/en/
- Ellison Global Fellows Program. The Ellison Global Fellows Program is currently accepting applications for a two-year fellowship to work at the Ellison Institute for World Health at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Fellows are expected to apply their core research skills in the areas of economics,
public health, health policy, demography, and related fields with the expectation that they will make important research contributions for future international health policy.
For more information, please contact: global-health@harvard.edu
Revised:
Jan. 2010
Contact:
intlnursinggroup@ucsf.edu
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