Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health

Status: Closed

Deadlines

Notice of 2012 fellowship awards: by January 31, 2012
Most recent application deadline: October 17, 2011
Application deadline for 2013 fellowships: TBD

Eligibility

Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Applications are open to medical or graduate students.
Degree requirements, research focus and affiliation vary by country. Please refer to the Fulbright-Fogarty Program Sites by Region and Country.
Each applicant can apply to only one (1) country.

Program Overview

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings.

The Fellowships inaugurated in July 2011 with four fellows in sub-Saharan Africa (Botswana, Malawi and South Africa), and have been expanded for the 2012-2013 application cycle to include countries in Asia and Latin America.

View a complete list of Fulbright-Fogarty Program Sites by Region and Country. Potential projects are listed with each country. Applicants are encouraged to communicate by email with the listed contacts.

Awards are for 9 months at the overseas site. They carry the benefits of Fulbright Full Grants to the country of assignment. Fogarty provides support to the research training site, as well as orientation for Fellows at NIH.

Apply online for the Fulbright Program to the general Fulbright Student program in the field of Public Health.

Inquiries

Fogarty

Dr. Myat Htoo Razak
Program Director
Division of International Training and Research
Building 31, Room B2C39
31 Center Drive, MSC 2220
Bethesda, MD 20892-2220
Telephone: (301) 496-1653
Fax: (301) 402-0779
Email (preferred): myathtoo.razak@nih.gov

Mili Ferreira
Program Coordinator
Telephone: (301) 496-1653
Email: mili.ferreira@nih.gov

Fulbright Program

Theresa Granza
Director, US Student Programs
Institute of International Education (IIE)
809 United Nations Plaza
New York NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 984-5329
Email: TGranza@iie.org