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Non-NIH Funding Opportunities for Travel Support

Funding opportunities listed below provide support for travel for the purpose of research or training.

Other Non-NIH Funding Opportunities for:

This directory includes a variety of international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research. Its goal is to provide information about additional funding opportunities available to those in the field of global health research. The directory is maintained by the Fogarty International Center, the international component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

To add or update your organization's listing, please contact FICInfo@mail.nih.gov.

Organization Name
Fellowship/Grant Program Name
Funding TypesProgram Summary
American Association for the Advancement of ScienceInternational Funding Opportunities for Women in STEPost-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 GrantsPre-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 Psychological Association (APA)International Awards & GrantsPost-doctoral, Institutional, Travel
The Office of International Affairs serves as APA's touch point for international information, activities and initiatives within APA.
American Society for MicrobiologyASM Awards and GrantsPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Travel
ASM Awards are dedicated to acknowledging the best in microbiology. They encompass the many subspecialties of microbiology, including biotechnology, clinical microbiology, environmental microbiology, antimicrobial chemotherapy, immunology, and virology, as well as education and service to the profession.  Includes Travel Grants, fellowships and international professorships.
American Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneAwards and FellowshipsPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Travel
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), 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.
Association for Women in MathematicsTravel GrantsPost-doctoral, Travel
The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Foundation for Basic Research in MedicinePhD Fellowships, MD Fellowships and Travel GrantsPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Travel
The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds is a public foundation - an independent, not-for-profit institution for the exclusive and direct promotion of basic research in biomedicine. It supports researchers and projects aimed to experimentally elucidate basic phenomena of human life and pays particular attention to the promotion of junior scientists.
Burroughs Wellcome FundGrant ProgramsPost-doctoral, Faculty, Institutional, Travel
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund's grantmaking strategies are to support biomedical scientists at the beginning of their careers and to make grants in areas of science that are poised for significant advancement but currently undervalued and underfunded. Within this overall strategy, BWF makes grants within six focus areas: Biomedical Sciences; Infectious Disease; Interfaces in Science; Population and Laboratory Based Sciences; Reproductive Sciences; and Science Education.
Cancer Research UKFellowships and Training GrantsPre-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.
Feinberg Graduate SchoolFellowshipsPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Travel
The School's goal is the advanced training of new generations of creative and original researchers in the natural sciences and mathematics, or, in other words, the education of future scientific leaders. Therefore, all FGS students are directly involved in the research conducted at the Institute.
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)IBRO Funding OpportunitiesPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Travel
IBRO aims to foster neuroscience research, especially in less well-funded countries, by providing support through the following grants: Research Fellowships, Return Home Fellowships, International Travel Grants and Regional Funding.
Royal SocietyGrant ProgramsPost-doctoral, Faculty, Travel
The Royal Society runs a number of funding schemes which are designed to enhance the UK science base and foster collaboration between UK-based and overseas scientists. Please note that the Royal Society is unable to provide funding for Masters or PhD students.
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and HygieneGrant ProgramsPre-doctoral/Graduate, Post-doctoral, Faculty, Travel
The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene promotes and advances the study, control and prevention of disease in humans and other animals in the tropics.  It currently runs five grants programmes.
Women Chemists Committe, American Chemistry SocietyEli Lilly Travel AwardTravel
The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) serves the membership of the American Chemical Society. Our mission is to be leaders in attracting, developing and promoting women in the chemical sciences. There are four goals designed to fulfill the mission statement: Attract women to a profession in the chemical sciences. Take an advocacy position within the ACS on issues of importance to women in the chemical sciences. Provide leadership for career development opportunities for women in the chemical sciences. Promote and recognize the professional accomplishments of women in the chemical sciences.
Yale School of MedicineYale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars ProgramPre-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.