External Programs- Public Health, Wilderness Medicine, and Medical History
*Important Note about External Funding*
If you are considering applying for any external funding (listed here or otherwise),
your grant proposal MUST go through the Office of Medical Student Research.
This will ensure that your grant money will be handled properly and without delay.
Contact us at mssrf@med.wayne.edu or ggilchri@med.wayne.edu
Public Health
Alpha Omega Alpha Student Research Fellowships
http://alphaomegaalpha.org/student_research.html
Program Description
Supports medical student research for clinical investigation, basic laboratory work, epidemiology, social science/health services, leadership, or professionalism.
Prerequisites
Eligibility: First-, second-, and third-year medical students from schools with active AΩA chapters, or associations, are eligible. Funds from the fellowship are expected to be the major source of support for the student. Only one candidate from each school may be nominated. Only one fellowship can be awarded during medical school.
Arnold P Gold Student Summer Fellowships
http://www.gold-foundation.org/programs/student-summer-fellowships/
Program Description
The Student Summer Fellowship program offers opportunities for medical students to complete a research or service project related to community health. Projects must be focused on studying cultural competency issues, developing skills to become relationship-centered physicians, and addressing a public health need in an underserved community or population.
There are two types of fellowships:
The Student Summer Research Fellowship is awarded for research into community health and cultural competency issues. Although this is a research-based Fellowship, the focus should be on humanistic patient care and as such the proposal should show significant interaction with the target population.
The Student Summer Service Fellowship is intended to provide students an opportunity to design and implement a service project addressing a public health need in an underserved community or population. The Foundation's goal is to provide an opportunity for students to work directly with patients and to become more compassionate, relationship-centered physicians.
Prerequisites
Medical students at an accredited U.S. or Canadian school of allopathy or osteopathy may apply for either the Research or Service Fellowships (details below).
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Student Award Program
http://www.bcbsm.com/foundation/grant-programs/student-award.html
Program Description
This program supports medical and doctoral students in Michigan who aim to improve health care within the state.
Past successes within this program have included applied research, pilot programs, demonstrations and evaluation projects.
The award offers a $3,000 stipend for projects.
Prerequisites
We welcome applications from students enrolled at any of Michigan's accredited universities.
You are ineligibe if:
Your project is mostly complete when you apply.
You have received this award befor e.
You are a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employee, or you have a family member who is a BCBSM employee.
Your proposed project involves any research involving non-human subjects.
The Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Medical Student Summer Fellowship in Socioeconomic Research
http://www.csnsonline.org/fellowship_student.php
Program Description
The CSNS/CNS Medical Student Socioeconomic Fellowship supports a medical student conducting research on a socioeconomic issue impacting neurosurgical practice. It is funded and overseen by the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies and administered through the Fellowship Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
Prerequisites
The fellowship is open to all medical students in the United States and Canada. The fellow will spend 8 to 10 weeks conducting supervised research on a socioeconomic topic of importance to neurosurgery.
David E Rogers Fellowship Program
https://nyam.org/grants/rogers.html/
Program Description
The David E. Rogers Student Fellowship Award is meant to enrich the educational experiences of medical and dental students through projects that bear on medicine and dentistry as they contribute to the health of communities, and to address the human needs of underserved or disadvantaged patients or populations. The content of the Fellowship might include clinical investigation, public health/epidemiology, health policy analysis, activities linking biomedicine, the social infrastructure and human or community need.
Prerequisites
Competition is open to candidates attending medical or dental school in the United States. 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 startup period. Students enrolled in combined MD/PhD programs are not eligible for this program. Additionally, eligible candidates are required to be a US citizen, permanent resident of the US, or authorized to work in the US for the period of time covered by this proposed award.
Alpha Omega Alpha Student Research Fellowships
http://alphaomegaalpha.org/student_research.html
Program Description
Supports medical student research for clinical investigation, basic laboratory work, epidemiology, social science/health services, leadership, or professionalism.
Prerequisites
Eligibility: First-, second-, and third-year medical students from schools with active AΩA chapters, or associations, are eligible. Funds from the fellowship are expected to be the major source of support for the student. Only one candidate from each school may be nominated. Only one fellowship can be awarded during medical school.
Margaret E Mahony Fellowships
https://nyam.org/awards-grants/student-grants/margaret-e-mahoney-fellowships/
Program Description
The Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship in Health Policy program provides stipends for outstanding medical, dental, public health, public policy, and graduate nursing students to conduct summer research projects on some aspect of health care delivery transformation for vulnerable populations and/or early childhood health and development, with an emphasis on policy implications. Fellows are also required to participate in a variety of leadership development activities and will have the opportunity to meet local and national health policy leaders. Fellows will receive a stipend of $6,000 intended to cover living expenses.
Prerequisites
Eligible applicants must be:
- Masters-level students currently enrolled in medical, dental, public health, public policy or graduate nursing schools in the United States. Students graduating in May 2017 are eligible to apply.
- Undergraduates and Doctoral students are not eligible to apply.
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident, or authorized to work in the U.S. throughout the award period.
Massachusetts General Hospital Summer Research Trainee Program
http://www.massgeneral.org/mao/education/internship.aspx?id=5
Program Description
Each summer, twenty students are selected from a nationwide competition to join SRTP. Each student is assigned to a specific MGH laboratory, clinical site, health policy, or health services research area where they undertake an original research project under the mentorship and guidance of a Mass General Hospital (MGH) investigator. Assignments are carefully considered and are made with the student's research and career interests in mind. In addition to this unique research experience, students will gain knowledge through weekly didactic seminars, both at the MGH and at Harvard Medical School, attend career development workshops and networking event, and have opportunities for clinical shadowing.
Prerequisites
SRTP seeks students who are interested in pursuing a career in academic medicine or biomedical research and meet the following criteria:
Member of a group that is underrepresented in medicine (URM)*
Undergraduate junior or senior, rising 1st year medical student, or 1st year medical student, graduate school student, or post-baccalaureate student (note: freshman and sophomores not eligible) Attended/attending a college or medical school in the US and Puerto Rico.
US citizens or permanent residents.
If accepted, proof of health insurance required
*Underrepresented in medicine (URM) for the purpose of this program are those individuals belonging to a particular ethnic or racial group which has been considered by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to be underrepresented in biomedical research (relative to their numbers in the general population). These groups may include Latino/ Hispanic, African-American/Black, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaskan Natives, among others.
CDC Foundation- Hubert Global Health Fellowship
https://www.cdc.gov/hubertfellowship/
Program Description
The CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship is designed to encourage medical and veterinary students to gain a global perspective of public health through an experiential learning opportunity. Fellows are placed in 6-12 week assignments across the world, including but not limited to, Africa, Asia, and South America. Projects during field assignments allow fellows to develop skills in global applied epidemiology and gain hands-on experience working on a priority public health issue in a developing country.
Prerequisites
A 3rd or 4th year medical or veterinary student during the fellowship, U.S. citizen or permanent resident,
Enrolled in a school accredited by one of the following:
Liaison Committee on Medical Education, American Osteopathic Association,
American Veterinary Medical Association,
Covered by medical insurance during the fellowship,
Able to attend the 2-day course in July at CDC, in Atlanta, Georgia
Fogarty/ Ellison Overseas Fellowships in global Health and Clinical Research Training
https://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/pages/scholars-fellows-global-health.aspx
Program Description
The Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars supports U.S. university consortia to provide collaborative, mentored global health research training opportunities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). (See The World Bank Country and Lending Groups to identify countries with low- and middle-income economies.) Individual students, postdoctoral fellows or faculty from the U.S. or from LMICs apply through the consortia below for placement at an LMIC institution for 12 months.
Gates Foundation- Grand Challenges in Global Health
https://grandchallenges.org/#/map
Program Description
Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems.
MHIRT California State University
http://biology.fullerton.edu/mtolmasky/MHIRT%20website/index.html
Program Description
The objectives of the program are:
to increase the numbers of students belonging to health disparities populations or underrepresented minorities that pursue advanced degrees in basic sciences, biomedical or clinical research fields
to make these students aware of minority and international health problems and to seek novel approaches
to address them to inculcate in these students the importance and opportunities of international collaboration in research to address health disparities from a global health perspective
Prerequisites
The program will give undergraduate students priority by selecting approximately 75% undergraduate students as participants per year. It is strongly preferred that all undergraduate participants have completed at least two years of coursework in a major related to biomedical science, a minimum GPA of 3.0, and have demonstrated evidence of exceptional scientific research interest and talent, such as previous undergraduate research experience. Approximately 25% of the student participants may be graduate or health professions students in each budget.
During the trainee selection process priority will be given to students who are interested in research pertinent to reducing and/or eliminating health disparities. A degree of priority is given to applicants from within the CSU consortium.
A priority of the program is to offer international research training opportunities to qualified undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who are from groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research.
MHIRT- Hampton University
http://science.hamptonu.edu/chem/programs/mhirt/
Program Description
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT) program is a carefully structured activity that takes a group of selected students to research sites abroad to participate in on-going research programs in natural products and environmental health. Three sites have been established for this program on the continent of Africa: the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya, and University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria.
MHIRT University of Alabama
http://www.soph.uab.edu/mhirt/introduction
Program Description
The Department of Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health is offering research training opportunities to minority undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who have an interest in research experience in the areas of nutrition, tropical infectious diseases, reproductive health and/or sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS or chronic disease. Dr. Pauline Jolly, PhD, MPH is the Program Director and UAB mentor for past and present MHIRT Trainees. She provides leadership to both International and UAB mentors in the Minority Health International Research Program.
As a recipient of one of these competitively awarded training positions, funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, you will have the unique experience of helping others while you learn in Guatemala, Jamaica, Peru or Swaziland.
MHIRT Harvard School of Public Health
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/epidemiology/diversity/hsph-mirt-program/
Program Description
The Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) Program is a national program designed to encourage students to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral research. The program provides support for undergraduate and graduate students to do health-related population-based research and training in developing countries. Trainees get knowledge of scientific literature associated with projects, biomedical research ethics, and cultural aspects with a focus on how these aspects affect public health issues as well as scientific and medical issues. MIRT is funded by The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health MIRT Program (formerly the University of Washington MIRT Program) has established linkages and training sites with academic institutions throughout the developing world, including in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Thailand, Republic of Georgia, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, and Australia. Research opportunities are designed collaboratively with faculty in these institutions to address health and health disparities pertinent to their countries.
Massachusetts Medical Society International Health Studies Grant Program
Program Description
At the May 2001 Annual Meeting, the Massachusetts Medical Society House of Delegates adopted Report: 411, A-01(D), which established an annual International Health Studies grant program to be administered by the Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation (Foundation), with input from the Committees on Global Health and Medical Education.
Medical students and resident physician members of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) are eligible to apply for grants for up to $2,000 to defray the costs of study abroad.
Fulbright Study/Research Award
https://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started
Program Description
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining activities to take place during one academic year in a participating country outside the U.S.
During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others' viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.
Prerequisites
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application. Permanent residents are not eligible. Please review the Ineligibility section below in relation to the eligibility of dual citizens.
- Applicants must have a conferred bachelor's degree or the equivalent before the start of the grant.
- In the creative and performing arts, four years of professional training and/or experience meets the basic eligibility requirement.
- Applicants must be in good health. Grantees will be required to submit a satisfactory Medical Certificate from a physician.
- Applicants must have sufficient proficiency in the written and spoken language of the host country sufficient to communicate with the people and to carry out the proposed study/research. This is especially important for projects in the social sciences and the humanities.
- Applicants may hold a J.D. at the time of application.
- Doctors of Medicine may receive grants for advanced academic study, but not for internships or residencies. Scholars with an M.D. degree who have completed their formal postgraduate training and propose attachment to a hospital or clinic for the purpose of independent or collaborative research should apply to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, www.cies.org. Grants shall not authorize activity for which a license to practice medicine or nursing is required. The Fulbright Program cannot authorize proposals for medical research that involves clinical training, patient care or patient contact.
- Strong preference in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is for those who have not previously held a Fulbright grant. For the 2018-2019 competition, recipients of grants in 2015-2016, 2016-2017, or 2017-2018 will be at a competitive disadvantage, but are still eligible to apply, provided they continue to meet all other eligibility requirements.
- Preference will be given to applicants whose higher education was undertaken primarily at educational institutions in the United States. Foreign study during the junior year or other periods of undergraduate study that are integral parts of the curricula of American institutions will not be considered a disadvantage.
- Candidates who have not resided or studied in the country to which they are applying for more than six months, not counting undergraduate study abroad are preferred. Duty abroad in the Armed Forces of the United States is not considered disqualifying within the meaning of this section.
- For most programs, applicants who have had extensive previous foreign experience in the host country are at a competitive disadvantage, but are still eligible to apply.
Wilderness Medicine
National Space Biomedical Research Institute Summer Apprenticeship Program
http://nsbri.org/for-students/graduates-undergraduates/
Program Description
NSBRI's Summer Apprenticeship Program provides the opportunity for undergraduate, graduate, veterinary or medical students from across the country to join ongoing project activities and gain hands-on experience in space biomedical research at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, or Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The 2016 Summer Apprenticeship Program begins on May 31 and ends on August 12. Applicants must be available to perform scientific research and attend seminars during these dates
Prerequisites
Applicants must have completed their sophomore year of college by the start of the Summer Apprenticeship Program. The program is only open to U.S. citizens. Applicants must be available to work full time during the program dates.
Medical History
American Osler Society- Medical History and Medical Humanism Bean Award
http://www.americanosler.org/bean-award.php
Program Description
The American Osler Society announces the availability of an award for support of research in the broad areas of medical history and medical humanities. Candidates must be currently matriculated students in approved schools of medicine in the United States or Canada. The successful applicant may be eligible to present a paper based on his or her findings at the annual meeting of the American Osler Society. The stipend for the coming year will be $1,500, and up to $750 additional may be available to support travel to the annual meeting contingent on submission of a paper acceptable to the Committee at the conclusion of the studentship.
Society for the History of Navy Medicine Graduate and Medical Professional Student Research Grant
https://historyofnavymedicine.org/programs/studentresearchgrant/
Program Description
The Society for the History of Navy Medicine has an annual grant of up to $1500 for research in the history of naval or maritime medicine. The grant is intended to support work being done by a student enrolled in a program leading to a degree above the baccalaureate level in history, medical history or the medical professions.
The grant may be used for travel to a research site; photocopying, photography or microfilming; borrowing or access fees; and similar research-related expenses. Society membership is encouraged but is not required.