HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship Programme
The HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship program at the Harvard Global Health Institute provides funding for postdocs and Harvard junior faculty for their innovative research and curriculum development and teaching in global health.
The application for the 2024 – 2025 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowships is now open. All application materials are due by 5PM EST, March 8th, 2024.
The application for the next cohort of HGHI Burke Climate and Health Fellows will open in January 2025.
The 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.
Through the Burkes’ generosity, HGHI has funded over 50 Burke Global Health Fellows since 2009.
Application
The application for the 2024 – 2025 HGHI Burke Global Health Fellowship is now open. To apply, applicants must hold a junior faculty appointment at Harvard University (i.e. Assistant or Associate Professor, Instructor). Faculty working in disciplines outside of health and life sciences are encouraged to apply so long as the work falls within global health. All application materials are due by 5PM EST, March 8th, 2024. APPLY NOW
To apply for a HGHI Burke Climate and Health Fellowship, applicants must be research fellows, post-doctoral scholars, and early career faculty pursuing scholarly research at the intersection of climate change and global health. The application for the next cohort of HGHI Burke Climate and Health Fellows will open in January 2025.
Candidates apply through self-nomination.
Questions about your eligibility or the application?
Email HGHI_Fellowships@harvard.edu
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.
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 towards 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 so 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 publications, presentations, and reports.
All application materials are due by 5PM EST, March 8th, 2024
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.
