Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Global Health Fellowship Call for Applications 2024-2025

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. 

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.

• Table of Content
• About Harvard Global Health Institute
• HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship
• HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Courses
• Requirements for HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Harvard Global Health Institute

The Harvard Global Health Institute is committed to surfacing and addressing some of the most persistent challenges in human health. We believe that the solutions to these problems will be drawn from within and beyond the medicine and public health spheres to encompass design, law, policy, business, and other fields. At HGHI, we harness the unique breadth of excellence within Harvard and are a dedicated partner to organizations, governments, scholars, and committed citizens around the globe. We convene diverse perspectives, identify gaps, design new learning opportunities, and advise policy ma... continue reading

HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship

Aim and Benefits of HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship

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 leve.

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.

HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Courses

• Global Health

Requirements for HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Qualification

• 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.

Interview date, Process and Venue for HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship

• 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 

Application Deadline

How to Apply

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. 

For more details visit: HGHI website.