Scholarly Leave

Students considering SCHOLARLY LEAVE should begin by reviewing the Guidelines for students considering a year of scholarship for research and then meeting with Dr. Karen Zier. (To schedule an appointment with Dr. Zier, contact Grace Oluoch at ext x44429 or via e-mail, grace.oluoch@mssm.edu). Several opportunities are reviewed below:


The Fogarty International Center/Ellison Overseas Fellowship Program This is a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate level U.S. students in the health professions. It opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH funded research centers in a diverse group of countries, including Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, China, Haiti, India, Kenya, Mali, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Zambia. The program is sponsored by the NIH's Fogarty International Center (FIC) in partnership with The Ellison Medical Foundation, the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Association of American Medical Colleges and the Association of Schools of Public Health are managing the program. To learn more please contact Yolanda Thomas, AAMC Division of Biomedical and Health Sciences Research, at ,or 202-828-0481


The CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship is a one-year fellowship in applied epidemiology for medical students. The program is designed to increase the pool of physicians with a population health perspective. The deadline for the submission of the online application for the 2010-2011 fellowship is December 4, 2009.

The Fulbright US Student Program
Allows for individually designed study/research or an English Teaching Assistantship You can propose a project and/or study plan that will take place during one academic year in a country outside the U.S.; Provides support for study/research/teaching in a single country;Facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in daily tasks; Promotes mutual understanding through engagement in the community.
The 2010-2011 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition is open. Complete program and application information is now available on the website. The application deadline is October 19, 2009.


The Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) provides support for one year of full-time clinical research training. The main goal of the program is to encourage medical students to pursue careers in clinical research. Interested medical students must be willing to take a year out from school and conduct fellowship research and training at one of 12 hosting medical schools.



HIV Corps, Center for Infectious Disease Research, (CIDRZ)
This is a 10-12 month internship in AIDS research and public health based in Zambia, with a stipend of $1000 per month. Since 2003, the CIDRZ internship program has provided 43 Zambian and American medical and pre-medical students with the opportunity to help implement HIV prevention and treatment programs in rural areas, and provides support and mentoring for research activities.


Each year, the Acumen Fund Fellows Program provides extraordinary young professionals with a unique opportunity to use their skills to effect real social change with our portfolio organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, India and Pakistan, and to build lasting relationships with other like-minded individuals.

Acumen Fund's year-long fellowship begins in September with eight weeks of intensive and multidisciplinary leadership training in our New York City office. Training topics range from self reflection to negotiation and storytelling training to functional topics such as investment and valuation techniques and design, marketing and operations. The Fellows also meet with leaders from diverse fields, as well as leading writers and thinkers. Training will explore issues related to our investment geographies and sectors as well.


The Global Health Corps Fellowship Program
GHC will recruit and match partner organizations that have specific needs with recent University graduates with requisite skills. Partner organizations will identify an area of their operations that stands to benefit from a fellowship team. Assignments for GHC fellows will have specific parameters, with a timeline and defined metrics for success. Fellows will be chosen for specific assignments following an extensive application and interview process. They will be selected based on their experience, character, and knowledge, and based on their possession of the specific skills necessary to accomplish the designated assignment. Each fellowship team will be composed of at least one pair of fellows, one from the United States and one from the country where the partner organization works.


Frist Global Health Scholars
The program will sponsor Global Health Scholars for 2009-2010 at the following Tennessee educational institutions: Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Vanderbilt School of Nursing, Meharry Medical College, and East Tennessee State University. These students will receive a grant to travel to underserved areas to bolster health care in communities and clinical settings for a semester or year. These students will focus on service and training.


Harvard University Zuckerman Fellowship
The Zuckerman Fellows Program equips people from the fields of medicine, law, and business to provide leadership for the common good by making it possible for them to pursue public service degrees at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, School of Public Health, or Kennedy School of Government.
In addition to their formal coursework, Zuckerman Fellows participate in a yearlong cocurricular program that includes small-group discussions with members of the Harvard faculty as well as other leading academics and practitioners, personal and professional skill-building workshops, and a field trip. Taken together, these interdisciplinary activities help the Fellows integrate the classroom learning with their individual career plans and interests.


The Hopkins Sommer Scholars

The goal of the Hopkins Sommer Scholars Program is to develop the next generation of public health leaders. Each Hopkins Sommer Scholar comes to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with inspiration, experience and education. They leave with greater knowledge, enriched skills and the confidence to lead others to new frontiers in the field of health.


The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to attract, encourage, and train a new generation of leaders. Each year, the program will expose a highly selective group of graduate and undergraduate students from throughout NYU to the cross-disciplinary skills, experiences, and networking opportunities needed to advance and support their efforts realize sustainable and scalable pattern-breaking solutions to society's most intractable problems.

The program will also bring the field of social entrepreneurship to the greater NYU community. All interested NYU students can take advantage of many of the program's resources, including access to influential leaders in the field, exposure to cutting-edge research and scholarship on social entrepreneurship, new classes, and the opportunity to participate in skill building activities and trainings.