Funding Opportunities
American-Scandinavian Foundation Award
Brown Dept: Dean of the College Fellowship Office
The American-Scandinavian Foundation offers grants and fellowships for study and research in all five Scandinavian countries. Open to United States citizens and permanent residents who will have completed an undergraduate degree by the time their overseas program begins.
Deadline: November
> American-Scandinavian Foundation Award
Charles Carpenter Traveling Fellowship
This medical student travel fund has been established to honor Dr. Charles Carpenter, Professor of Medicine and Principal Investigator Center for AIDS Research. The fellowship assists to defray the expenses incurred by Brown medical students attending national meetings.
The Charles Carpenter Traveling Fellowship is available to medical students who have been selected to attend national meetings in which they are presenting (oral or posters). The student MUST be the first author on the abstract. This award can be up to $500 per student and should be used for:
* Accommodations
* Transportation
* Conference fees
* General travel expenses
The student will be required to submit original receipts upon completion of travel.
Eligible Applicants: If you would like to apply for this fellowship, please include your abstract, the letter of acceptance from the conference you plan to attend, a detailed report listing your financial requirements and a listing of all other fellowships, scholarships or grants already received for conference attendance.
Contact: Alexandra Morang
Director of Medical Student Affairs
401-863-2441
Alexandra_Morang@Brown.edu
Dean's Scholars Independent Study Fund
This fund provides small independent study grants to medical students generally in the amount of $850 each per fiscal year. Typically these funds are used to pay for research supplies.
Proposals should follow a traditional scientific forward including background and literature review, methodology and methods of analysis.
Awardees must submit receipts for expenditures and a report before the end of the fiscal year as these funds do not carry over into the following fiscal year. Awardees are also required to submit a written final report of their project.
Deadline: March 1
Contact: Nicole Hollingshead
Bio Medical Student Affairs
(401) 863-6797
Nicole_Hollingshead@brown.edu
Dean's Scholars Travel Grants
Brown Dept: Medical School-Medical Student Senate
Up to $250 travel awards to pursue scholarly projects. (10 per academic year)
Deadline: Rolling
Contact: President of the Medical Student Senate:
Kartik Venkatesh
Box G-8488
Dr. Hugh Mahoney Scholarship Program
The Dr. Hugh Mahoney Scholarship, sponsored by the Middlesex North District Medical Society, is available to any medical school student who is enrolled and has completed one year at an accredited medical school in the United States or Canada. Eligibility: Applicants must be a legal resident of one of the following towns comprising the district: Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Lowell, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro and Westford.
Contact: Colleen A. Hennessey
Middlesex North District Medical Society
Ph: (800) 944-5562
FAX: (781) 464-4823
Dr. Veronica Petersen '55 and Dr. Robert A. Petersen Educational Enhancement Fund
The Petersen fund supports innovative service or research initiatives designed to have a positive impact on individuals, families, and communities. These projects may positively serve a community by, for example, generating insights into barriers to quality health care or devising a solution to a recognized problem. The Fund encourages students to undertake projects in the United States or abroad that not only will foster their own development and enrich their educational experience but, just as importantly, will enable them to give back to the community at large. Such socially relevant projects embody the Alpert Medical School's mission of producing physicians and scientists who view medicine as a human service profession, as well as its tradition of student activism. In addition to support for larger projects, smaller amounts will be available to supplement projects that are in keeping with the goals of the Fund. Upon completion of projects, recipients are expected to share results and insights with peers and colleagues via a presentation, publication or other means, thereby making a concrete contribution to the Alpert Medical School community.
Contact: Zoila Quezada
Manager Minority Affairs Coordinator
Ph: (401) 863-2364
Zoila_Quezada@brown.edu
Foreign Studies Fellowship
Brown Dept: International Health Institute
The Foreign Studies Fellowship travel award supports students who are interested in global health through engagement in scholarly research, clinical activities, or advocacy. PLME, MD, and MPH students with a focus on international health are encouraged to write proposals for travel funding from this program. Each year, the program awards a small number of competitive travel grants to students with particularly meritorious foreign study plans.
Eligible Applicants: PLME and medical students
Deadline: February, May, October
> Foreign Studies Fellowship
IDSA Education and Research Foundation
An important part of IDSA's mission is to promote the subspecialty of infectious diseases by attracting the best and brightest medical students to the field. To further this goal, the IDSA Education and Research Foundation offers summer scholarships to medical students with mentorship by an IDSA member or fellow. Students in any year of medical school are eligible for this award. The scholarship activity must focus on pediatric or adult infectious diseases and may involve either clinical or research activities.
Each scholarship recipient will receive $2,000. The majority of the funding will be provided in July at the beginning of the scholarship activity.
Contact: Rebecca Dotson
rdotson@idsociety.org
(703) 299-0200.
International Health Travel Scholarships (IHTS)
Approximately ten (10) International Health Travel Scholarships (IHTS) of $500 are awarded annually to PLME undergraduate or medical students annually to support travel to international locations to pursue educational experiences, such as attending summer seminars, conferences, programs, or research, which will benefit the students' professional development. The annual deadline for submission of an application is MARCH 31.
Contact: Hilary Sweigart
Box G-B222
97 Waterman Street
Hilary_Sweigart@Brown.edu
401-863-9790
Medical Student Research Projects in Geriatrics
The Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University, funded by a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, is offering seed grants for medical student curriculum development projects in geriatrics. Students enrolled in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University are eligible to apply. Students who are doing scholarly concentrations in aging or have curriculum SAs from the Reynolds Program are eligible to apply, but the seed grant proposal must be different from the scholarly concentration project or SA. Each grant will need an identified faculty member who will serve as an advisor to the project. Awards will be up to $1,000. Awards are for one year. Budgets should be planned according to this timeframe. Unused funds will be transferred back to The Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. The Awards are not transferable to other institutions. The overall merit of the project will be considered and evaluated by the Director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and a selection committee.
Contact: Renee Shield at Renee_Shield@brown.edu
PACC Funds
The Patient Advocacy Coordinating Council (PACC) may have resources to fund student projects that support and promote the rights of the patient in the health care arena and the community at large. Activities can take a number of different forms, such as improving health care access for individuals and families through direct patient care, working with legislators to develop effective health policies, and empowering communities to take action about health-related issues through outreach and education.
Contact: Nitin Aggarwal at Nitin_Aggarwal@brown.edu
> PACC Funds
RI Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Network
Resources from five to ten $3,000 stipends available for community-based summer health care projects.
Contact: Robert M. Trachtenberg, MS
Associate Director, Rhode Island AHEC Program
Alpert Medical School
Box G-A4
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-528-3261
Fax: 401-528-3211
robert_trachtenberg@brown.edu
Summer Research Assistantships in Emergency Medicine
Three Summer Research Assistantships in Emergency Medicine (SRA–EM) are available annually on a competitive basis to PLME or medical students. Students who are awarded an assistantship carry out their research project at a Brown-affiliated hospital between June and August, under the supervision and mentorship of a Brown emergency medicine faculty member (Instructor rank or above).
For the 10-week period, medical students will be paid a stipend of $3,500. Other employment is usually not authorized during the defined work-week tenure of the assistantship, and academic credit cannot be obtained for work performed under this form of support. It is permissible to use the research done during an assistantship as an element of a thesis to be presented toward a degree, and to obtain academic credit if the student decides to develop and continue the project as independent research during the academic year. Favorable consideration for an SRA–EM is based on a well-delineated research program involving experimental methods and hypotheses which are appropriate to the student's educational and research background.
Contact: Anne Cushing-Brescia, MD
Director, SRA Program
Hilary Sweigart
Manager, SRA Program
Additional information can be obtained by calling (401) 863-9790 or 863-3133
> View Summer Research Assistantships in Emergency Medicine
Teaching Assistant Positions
The Office of Summer and Continuing Studies may have funded teaching assistant positions for intensive introduction to medicine courses for high school students.
Contact: Office of Summer and Continuing Studies
Box T
Attn: Maria Byerly
(401) 863-6216
The Osler Library Research Travel Grant
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal is offering a travel grant to assist scholars who wish to use the resources of this library. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae with a description of their project and specify relevance of the Osler Library holdings in order to receive the grant of $1,500 (Canadian).
Eligible Applicants: Any individual interested in the arts and humanities of medical history
Deadline: December 31
> The Osler Library Research Travel Grant
Travel Scholarships
A limited amount of funds are available through the Student Affairs Office to support travel to professional conferences. Priority is given to students presenting their work and/or representing Brown in a leadership capacity.
Contact: Alexandra Morang
Director of Medical Student Affairs
401-863-2441
Alexandra_Morang@brown.edu.