The GloCal Health Fellowship provides aspiring global health researchers with outstanding interdisciplinary education and training in innovative research designed to improve health for populations around the world.
The GloCal Health Fellowship is a 12-month program that supports, mentored research fellowship investigators who are interested in studying diseases and conditions in developing countries.
The GloCal Health Fellowship Training Program has four principal components:
- Research Project Design – A 12-month, hands-on research project on-site with one of our 21 well-established, international collaborative partners
- Mentorship – A strong, interdisciplinary mentored research experience
- Global Health Education – Instruction in global health and related topics provided through online or onsite courses;
- Career Development- Career development to help ensure that fellows attain their short-term career goals and transition to the next career stage
Funding is available for research related, but not limited, to the following topics:
- Agriculture
- Anthropology
- Biology
- Biostatistics/Bioinformatics
- Chemistry
- Geography
- Law
- Medicine
- Molecular Biology
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Oceanography
- Oral Health
- Planetary Health
- Pharmacy
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Sociology
- Veterinary Medicine
- Women’s Health
The fellowship is designed for: US doctoral students (PhD, DrPH, etc.), professional students (MD, DDS, DVM, PharmD, etc.) and postdoctoral fellows, as well as foreign postdoctoral fellows from affiliated international sites in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).