2024 - 2025 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Applications Now Open
The Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) is accepting applications for the 2024 – 2025 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship. This one-year Fellowship program provides funding for Harvard junior faculty from across the University to support innovative research, curriculum development, and teaching in global health. Since 2009, the HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship has served as a career catalyst for over 50 junior faculty. Click here to apply!
Through the award, fellows are supported to conduct impactful research and to develop innovative public health curriculums. The reach of the program has been broad, with projects in India, Nicaragua, Lesotho, China, Bangladesh, South Africa, Zambia, Peru, Mexico, and many other countries and regions. In recent years, fellows’ projects have addressed a wide range of critical health issues, including analyzing the impacts of air pollution on the lung health of vulnerable populations in southwestern Uganda, designing a curriculum for medical providers to conduct forensic medical evaluations of asylum seekers in the United States, and examining how relieving time poverty can benefit the health of girls and women living in Mumbai, India.
The HGHI Burke Fellowships are made possible through the generous support of Harvard alumna Katherine States Burke, AB’79, and her husband, T. Robert Burke, who established the Burke Fund to help launch and advance the careers of promising junior faculty in global health.
The Award
The HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship is a 12-month program that provides funding for research and curriculum development. There are two categories of HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship awards:
Research Award: $75,000 each
Research awards provide opportunities for junior faculty to conduct foundational research that prepares them to be independent investigators or to conduct exploratory work on groundbreaking questions seldom supported by traditional funding sources.
Curriculum Development and Teaching Award: $25,000 each
Curriculum Development and Teaching awards provide funding for junior faculty to apply innovative pedagogy to course development and teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level.
Recipients of the HGHI Burke Fellowships will also receive funding for professional development, including up to $3,000 toward publishing in an open-access journal once during the fellowship, and up to $5,000 toward attending a research conference or networking event that enhances research networks and/or research skills and knowledge.
Basic Qualifications
Candidates must hold a junior faculty appointment at Harvard University (ie: Instructor, Assistant or Associate Professor, etc.). We welcome proposals from a broad range of fields and perspectives. Faculty working in disciplines outside of health and life sciences are strongly encouraged to apply, as long as the work falls within global health.
Fellow Expectations
- Participate in relevant Harvard Global Health Institute events.
- Submit a one-year progress report and a final reflection paper to the Harvard Global Health Institute.
- Present research findings and accomplishments achieved as a result of HGHI Burke funding to the global health community at the conclusion of their fellowship.
- Serve as an annual HGHI Pathways to Global Health seminar speaker. This is a 1-hour seminar series for undergraduate students interested in careers in global health.
- Serve as a reviewer for future applicants to the fellowship.
- Acknowledge HGHI Burke funding in all award letters and event communications, including invitation letters, websites, announcements, flyers, press releases, presentations, publications and reports.
All application materials are due by 5PM EST, March 8th, 2024
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Applicants will be notified in late March 2024 if they have been moved forward to stage two of the application process. They will be invited to submit a full proposal at that time.
We look forward to reviewing your application. If you have questions about the fellowship program, please email us at HGHI_Fellowships@harvard.edu. For more information on eligibility requirements and FAQs, please visit the HGHI Burke Fellowship page of the HGHI website.