External International Elective Resources
American Medical Association International Health Database: Provides an overview of organizations that provide medical electives, organizations/foundations committed to international health, university websites with international opportunities, international mission trips, residencies with international opportunities, important travel information/websites.
American Medical Student Association’s Global Health Committee: Website dedicated to providing useful information about funding sources, elective opportunities, planning for your trip, reading lists, publications and other useful information. Has a searchable directory of international health opportunities.
Association of American Medical Colleges: a valuable webpage for medical students, with a variety of resources about navigating the medical education process, including extramural electives.
Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship: Established in 2005 in response to growing interest in global health and international emergency medicine among applicants applying to our pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program. In addition to the standard pediatric emergency medicine curriculum, the program provides additional training and experience in global health. It is intended for those who are seeking a career in academic pediatric emergency medicine and/or medical leadership and research focusing on domestic and international health disparities. Individuals completing the fellowship will be prepared to develop, integrate, and evaluate healthcare programs on a global scale.
Baylor College of Medicine Residency Program in Global Child Health: designed to prepare trainees for leadership positions in global pediatric health care, pediatric education and training, clinical research and child advocacy. The training program is 4 years, with 36 months of pediatric rotations in the US and 12 months of assignment at one of the Pediatric AIDS Initiative’s Centers of Excellence in Africa.
Baylor College of Medicine Shoulder to Shoulder Foundation: in alliance with the Asociación San Lucas, Honduras, aims to improve health and the provision of health services for underserved people in the area of Santa Ana, Intibuca, Honduras, and to promote self-sufficiency at a grass roots level. Twice a year, a brigade of medical faculty, medical students, optometrists, public health students, and a dentist travel to Santa Ana to conduct large clinics. General medical services, well-women exams, optometry services, and dental services are provided. The clinic also has a pharmacy to provide any necessary medicines to patients. Students work with the community to develop public health projects, which have included midwife education events, women’s health initiatives, justa stoves to decrease smoke inhalation, and efforts to improve the communities overall nutritional status.
Child Family Health International: a global family of health professionals and students working at the grassroots level. We support our International Partners through community health projects and Global Health Immersion Programs. CFHI's 20+ programs in 5 countries connect local health professionals with international students -transforming perspectives about self, global health and healing.
CDC Foundation: CDC-Hubert Global Health Fellowship: Provides an opportunity for third- and fourth-year medical and veterinary students to gain public health experience in an international setting. Hubert fellows spend six to twelve weeks in a developing country working on a priority health problem in conjunction with CDC staff.
Doctors for Global Health: is a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DGH is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees and others. Together we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues. DGH has a unique way of carrying out its mission, focusing on helping to make underserved communities healthy, but in the broadest definition of health possible. DGH helps bring community-oriented primary care to the communities where it works, providing basic health services. Since its inception, DGH has accompanied communities in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and the United States.
Doris Duke Research Fellowship for Medical Students: provides support for one year of full-time clinical research training. The main goal of the program is to encourage medical students to pursue careers in clinical research. Interested medical students must be willing to take a year out from school and conduct fellowship research and training at one of 12 hosting medical schools.
Fogarty Programs: provide funding to perform research and to train researcher in a variety of global health topics. Through these extensive programs, Fogarty and its partners throughout the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are working to build sustainable research capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
MAP International: MAP Fellows: sponsors fourth year medical students by funding travel arrangements for medical students to their chosen destination. The field experience must be designed to provide the student exposure to community health in a Christian context. Students select a mission agency or hospital that has an outreach among the poor in a rural or urban setting. Students must spend at least eight weeks in the field.
Medical Women’s International Association: Anne C. Carter Global Health Fellowship; American Women’s Hospital Service
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities: Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program: short-term international training opportunities in health disparities research for undergraduate and graduate students in the health professions who are from health disparity populations and/or are underrepresented in basic science, biomedical, clinical, or behavioral health research career fields. Grantees conduct research for at least 10-12 weeks during the summer or one semester during the academic year on a wide variety of diseases and health conditions.
National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center: Provides 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 American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene: 5 Fellowship Awards for tropical medicine and infectious diseases:
Benjamin Kean Tropical Medicine Fellowship
Burroughs Wellcome Fund/Postdoctoral Fellowship
Robert E. Shope Infectious Disease Fellowship
Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award
Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
The Gold Foundation: Student Summer Research Fellowship: research in community health and/or cultural competency issues, rather than laboratory work.
Student Summer Service Fellowship: provide students an opportunity to design and implement a service project addressing a public health need in an underserved community or population.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston External Global Health Opportunities: a partial listing of possible global health opportunities.
Unite for Sight: Global Impact Fellows are given immersive, transformative global health volunteer abroad experiences through international eye clinics. Fellows receive a Certificate in Global Health & Program Delivery and are nurtured and encouraged to apply their global health delivery skills to become new leaders in global health. Fellows come from a diverse background, including public health, medicine, international development, social entrepreneurship, and the social sciences.
