| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (American Friends) | Humboldt Foundation Programs | Post-doctoral, Health Professional |
American Friends promotes networking, exchange, and creative collaboration among scientists, scholars, artists, and other professionals in the United States and Germany, consistent with the goals of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Most of the fellowships and grants are open to all nationalities. |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | AACR Research Funding | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional |
The AACR offers an outstanding array of support mechanisms for cancer researchers at various stages in their careers, from fellowships to career development awards to grants for independent investigators. |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | Scientific Achievement Awards | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional | AACR has presented many prizes, awards and lectureships to recognize the scientific achievements of scientists and physicians who collectively have made significant contributions to the understanding, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer. Many awards include honorariums or grants. |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | International Funding Opportunities for Women in STE | Post-doctoral, Health Professional, Travel |
To increase the participation of women in international scientific research. WISC awards small travel grants to U.S. scientists to plan and design new collaborations with colleagues in Central/Eastern and Western Europe, the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Near East, Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Pacific, and Asia. These activities are expected to lead to full research proposals. |
| American Association of University Women (AAUW) | Fellowships and Grants | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional, Travel |
One of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women, AAUW is providing more than $4.3 million in funding for more than 278 fellowships and grants to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations in the 2012-13 academic year. Due to the longstanding, generous contributions of AAUW members, a broader community of women continues to gain access to educational and economic opportunities — breaking through barriers so that all women have a fair chance. |
| American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) | ABTA Funding Opportunities | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional |
The American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) provides critical funding to researchers working toward breakthroughs in brain tumor diagnosis, treatment and care, with the ultimate goal of finding a cure. Funding opportunities include Basic Research Fellowships, Translational Grants, Medical Student Summer Fellowships and Neuro-Oncology Nursing Research Grants. |
| American Cancer Society | International Programs | Post-doctoral, Health Professional | As the nation's largest private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists studying cancer, the American Cancer Society (ACS) focuses its funding on investigator-initiated, peer-reviewed proposals. |
| Arthritis Foundation | Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Research in Arthritis | Post-doctoral, Health Professional | The Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Research in Arthritis recognizes those researchers whose contributions during the previous five years have represented a significant advance in the understanding, treatment or prevention of arthritis and rheumatic diseases. It is a fitting memorial tribute to Lee C. Howley Sr., former chairman of Revco D.S., Inc., who was instrumental in the establishment of the Revco Arthritis Research Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| Cancer Research UK | Fellowships and Training Grants | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Travel |
Fellowships and Training Grants provide support for investigators early in their careers, particularly for those establishing a research group for the first time. Fellowships will provide the salary of the Principal Investigator. |
| Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) | HIVCorps Fellowship Program | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional | Fellowship program is designed to provide logistical support for our various HIV-related service projects,to provide students and early career public health professionals with the opportunity to work in developing world settings, and to foster collaborations between the American and Zambian volunteers. |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | Public Health Training Fellowships | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional | CDC is looking for motivated students, graduates, and health professionals for a variety of exciting public health training programs, including Student Internships and Fellowships; Career Training Fellowships; and Post-doctoral Research Fellowships. |
| Cochrane Collaboration | Awards, Scholarships and Funding Initiatives | Faculty, Health Professional |
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international network of dedicated people from over 100 countries that work together to help health care providers, policy makers, patients, their advocates and caregivers, make well-informed decisions about health care, based on the best available research evidence, by preparing, updating and promoting the accessibility of Cochrane Reviews. A number of awards, prizes, fellowships and scholarships are available to contributors. |
| Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (CSC) | Commonwealth Scholarships | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional | The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (CSC) is responsible for managing Britain’s contribution to the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP), established in 1959, and supports around 700 awards annually. |
| Council for International Exchange of Scholars | Fulbright Programs | Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. |
| Doris Duke Charitable Foundation | Research and Fellowship Opportunities | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional | The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child abuse, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties. |
| European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) | EMBO Fellowships | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional | EMBO Fellowships fund and support young scientists in their pursuit of both pre- and post-doctoral research. A core EMBO programme since the 1960’s, thousands of scientists have benefited from international exchange. |
| Grand Challenges | Grand Challenges Explorations | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | Grand Challenges Explorations, open to anyone from any discipline, fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges. |
| International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) | Research Grants | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | Established in 1988, the programme aims to stimulate collaborative research in Member States facilitating the creation of appropriate research facilities in promising institutes, to promote training of young scientists and develop new research programmes of specific interest in participating countries. |
| International Development Research Centre (IDRC) | IDRC Fellowships | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional | Through our Fellowships and Awards program, we fund innovative work by Canadian and developing-country Master’s, PhD, and post-doctoral students. Our program helps to develop a solid research community in developing countries. And we give a new generation of Canadians the opportunity to participate in international development: our awards program can help students studying in Canada to conduct field research in developing countries. |
| Organization of American States | Professional Development Scholarships | Health Professional | The Department of Human Development, Education and Culture (DHDEC) of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) offers professional development scholarships to citizens of OAS Member States. Professional Development courses aim to expand or refresh participants' professional expertise in areas of specialization related to the priority development areas of the OAS as outlined in the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI) Strategic Plan for Partnership for Integral Development 2006-2009. |
| Pasteur Foundation | Pasteur Foundation Programs | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional |
The mission of the Pasteur Foundation is to help the Institut Pasteur in its work by funding specific projects, promoting scientific exchanges with researchers and by raising funds for the advancement of science. Opportunities include Postdoctoral Fellowships, Undergraduate Internships and Visiting Scholars. |
| Peace Corps, PEPFAR and Global Health Service Corps (GHSC) | Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) | Health Professional | The Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) places nurse and physician educators in Tanzania, Malawi and Uganda for one-year assignments. The program may consider expanding to additional countries and disciplines in future years. These trained health professionals will act as adjunct faculty in medical or nursing schools of the partnering countries and will focus on improving education and building capacity within the health-care systems. |
| Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development | Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the Government of Norway, and the World Bank have joined together to launch Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, to find the tools and approaches to help the mothers and newborns during their most vulnerable hours. The partnership seeks groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings around the time of delivery. |
| Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) | STRI Fellowship Programs | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional | The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), is a division of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and maintains research facilities for marine and terrestrial research at various locations on the Isthmus of Panama. STRI offers fellowships for undergraduate, predoctoral and postdoctoral research in the areas represented by its scientific staff. Disciplines include ecology, anthropology, paleontology, paleoecology, evolutionary biology, molecular phylogenetics, biogeography, animal behavior, neurobiology, soils sciences, and physiology of tropical plants and animals. |
| TDR- World Health Organization | Grants and other funding | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional | TDR funds specific research projects in diseases of poverty, which cover infectious diseases and the culture and environment that contribute to these problems. We fund research designed to find innovative ways to develop new drugs, barriers to the insects and worms that carry the parasites, diagnostics and other tools against infectious diseases in developing countries. |
| Third World Academy of the Sciences | TWAS Grants | Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | The programmes aim at encouraging the pursuit of scientific excellence in OIC countries by identifying and supporting the best young scientists in these countries; reinforcing and promoting scientific research and strengthening the endogenous capacity in science and technology; and counteracting the brain drain and reducing the exodus of scientific talent from the OIC countries |
| U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | Open Funding Opportunities | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Health Professional, Institutional | The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries to promote friendly, and peaceful relations, as mandated by the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. ECA accomplishes its mission through a range of programs based on the benefits of mutual understanding, international educational and cultural exchange, and leadership development. |
| Yale School of Medicine | Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program | Pre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Health Professional, Travel | By placing physicians trained in the US face-to-face with the broad range of health care needs in the developing world, the Yale International Health Program hopes to instill a sense of global citizenry and create local and international community activists in health. Rotation sites include South Africa, Uganda, Liberia and Indonesia, with an additional developing site in Rwanda. Reimbursement award amount varies by region. |