FUNDING - Global Health Scholarships/Fellowship Programs for Students and/or Residents

• Mount Sinai Medical Student Research Office There are opportunities to receive funding from foundations and institutions other than the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. These sources of support are for summer projects, year-long projects, and travel. For more information, click here
  
• Emergency Medicine Foundation (Deadline for application submission: Tuesday 2/1/11 and Friday 4/1/11 by Midnight CST)* As the oldest national foundation organized for the specific purpose of funding research in emergency medicine, the EMF’s work expands the body of knowledge that is paramount to the advancement of the specialty of emergency medicine. Funds distributed through EMF allows a broad array of vital research to be performed at all levels in the field of emergency medicine from seasoned practitioners to medical students to fellows in emergency medicine to junior and senior faculty. For more information, click here
  
• GHEC Scholarship The GHEC/Global Health Education Consortium is a non-profit organization committed to improving the health and human rights of under-served populations worldwide and the ability of the global workforce to meet their needs through improved education and training. Members are active in more than 90 health profession schools and training programs in the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean, including more than 1000 physicians and medical educators, residents and students, with other health disciplines such as nursing and physician assistants to be increasingly involved. For more information, click here
  
• ASTMH Awards and Scholarships The AMTMH/American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, founded in 1903, is a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians, and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor. Research, health care and education are the central activities of ASTMH members, whose work bridges basic laboratory research to international field work and clinics to country-wide programs. For more information, click here
  
• CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship (Deadline for submission: Friday 2/18/11)* The CDC/Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides a year-long fellowship, starting in July and ending the following June, to provide medical and veterinary students with a population health experience in an international setting. Fellows receive a stipend to help pay for travel and living expenses during the fellowship field assignment. Orientation travel expenses are paid by the CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship. For more information, click here
  
• The David E. Rogers Fellowship Program through the New York Academy of Medicine (This program will be on hold for the 2011 application cycle. Please check back in the fall of 2011 for information regarding the 2012 cycle)* The Rogers Fellowship is meant to enrich the educational experiences of medical and dental students through projects that bear on medicine and dentistry as social enterprises that is, as enterprises devoted to the capacity of these professions in any and all of their expressions to serve human needs particularly the needs of under-served or disadvantaged patients or populations. Funding will be provided for research projects lasting between ten (10) and twelve (12) weeks in the summer of the application year, between the applicant's first and second years of medical/dental school. Students are encouraged to pursue research projects that extend beyond the start-up period. For more information, click here
  
• IDSA Medical Scholars Program (Deadline for submission: Tuesday, 3/1/11)* The IDSA/Infectious Diseases Society of America Education and Research Foundation offers scholarships to medical students in U.S. medical schools with mentorship by an IDSA member or fellow. It is the responsibility of IDSA members and fellows to identify and solicit interested students. For more information, click here
  
• Patricia S. Levinson Summer Fellowship for Community Oriented Research and Service This program offers Mt. Sinai students a chance to participate in interdisciplinary, hands-on clinical and community-based projects. The goal of the program is to help the medical community better understand and address the needs of populations and communities served by Mount Sinai. Students can select from projects which focus on a health problem that is common to our immediate community in Upper Manhattan. Fore more information, click here
  
• Sara's Wish Foundation Fellowship (Preliminary applications are accepted annually from female students only beginning October 1st through January 31st)* The Sara's Wish Foundation annually awards scholarships to extraordinary young women studying abroad who exhibit qualities of leadership, service, and adventure. Fore more information, click here
  
• The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
  
• Golden Family Community Pediatrics Award Program (application due March 15, 2010)
  
• Medical Assistance Program International Medical Fellowship (applications due March 1)
  

INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIPS

Mount Sinai International Exchange Program for Minority Students

Graduate Assistantship Summer Program at Carter Center for currently enrolled graduate and professional students (Application for Summer 2010 are due by March 1, 2010)

ADDITIONAL WEBSITES with Funding Advice

University of Arizona has an excellent database of funding opportunities

AMSA site



Please send sigrid.hahn@mssm.edu any additional funding sources which should be added to the list.