Funding

UNC-based (applications usually due in early February or March annually) 

School of Medicine-based Scholarships (Applications due February 1st, 2010)

UNC School of Medicine International Fellowships
Fellowships each year to provide partial support to UNC medical students (or student groups) who want to undertake an elective clinical or research experience in another country. Funded by the Office of Student Affairs, with a maximum of $1000.

Perkins-Burke Fellowship
This fellowship is funded through a private donation for a UNC medical student to pursue a 6 to 8 week study experience abroad in either Europe or Canada during the summer before starting second year.

Becton-Tannenbaum Fellowship
Annual funding for one or two UNC School of Medicine student desiring to travel to developing or “third world” countries to experience a contrasting medical community or system. $1000

More information for these three scholarships are available here.

Other UNC-based Scholarships

Center for Global Intiatives Internship Award
These awards are intended to advance the academic and professional careers of students who have secured internationally-focused internships. Students must have secured their internship before applying for this award. Upon completing the internship and returning to UNC, students should build the internship experience into their academic experience. And, ideally, upon graduation, students land a job with the organization.

The Center for Global Initiatives is currently focusing particular attention on four themes and encourages proposals that address one or more of these themes: 1) Peace and Conflict Resolution, 2) Global Health, 3) Migration, Citizenship and Identity, and 4) the Globalization of the American South.

C.V. Starr Scholarships
These awards are intended to support UNC students who have strong financial needs to undertake an independent internationally-oriented experience.

The C.V. Starr International Scholarships were established at UNC in 2004 with an endowed gift from The Starr Foundation. Since 1980, C.V. Starr Scholarships have been established at more than 80 major universities, liberal arts colleges, and graduate and professional schools in the United States and abroad. Award is approximately $2500

Mahatma Gandhi Fellowship
The Mahatma Gandhi Fellowship was established in 1998 by a group of students in Sangam, a South Asian awareness group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who sought to create a unique new educational opportunity for their fellow students at UNC. The Fellowship awards two students each year up to $3000 to execute a project of their own design that benefits South Asians in some way, whether it is through direct service or increasing awareness of South Asian culture and issues. There is no restriction on where the project is undertaken nor on the exact nature of the project, just that it apply to South Asian issues in some way. All full-time students at UNC-Chapel Hill are welcome to apply.

James and Florence Peacock Fellowship
2 $3000 Scholarships for students to attend Carolina for Kibera. The fellowship is named in honor of the Peacocks, who have been tremendous supporters of CFK since its inception. Two fellowships valued at $3,000 each are awarded annually to two UNC student volunteers to defray the costs associated with volunteering in Kibera. UNC students who apply to be a CFK Summer Volunteer will automatically be considered for the Peacock Fellowship.

Other funding sources

UNC's GrantSource Library (http://research.unc.edu/grantsource/finding_funding.php)

Christian Medical and Dental Associations (www.cmdahome.org) - James S. Westra Memorial Endowment Fund (for 3^rd and 4^th year students), Short Term Medical Missions Fund for resident physicians

MAP/Reader’s Digest International Fellowships (Christian faith based) (http://www.map.org)

The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (www.imb.org)

International Heelers Scholarship (for a Christian UNC student interested in working with Christian Emergency Relief Teams) for more info: http://www.certinternational.org/

AMA International Medical Student Studies Program http://www.amsa.org/resource/amsarc/creative/estfunding.cfm

American Medical Women's Association's American Women's Hospitals Service www.amwa-doc.org/

Charles S. Houston Award of the Wilderness Medical Society http://www.wms.org

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene http://www.astmh.org/

Albert Schweitzer Fellowship http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/

CDC Hubert Scholarship http://www.cdcfoundation.org/fellowships/ochubert/index.aspx

Carol M. Davis Scholarship through Global Health Education Consortium. http://globalhealthedu.org

Rotary Foundation International (www.rotary.org) funds for 3-6 months international or cross-cultural study

Sara’s wish scholarship foundation – independent endowed scholarship for a woman student: http://www.saraswish.org/international_travel.htm