Fellowship Information

• Most UW fellowships go to postdocs or advanced PhD students, but it is worthwhile for all prospective students to check out fellowships that are available. Many fellowships have deadlines before the degree application deadline, but not all.

• FELLOWSHIPS FOR U.S. POSTDOCTORAL STUDENTS
  • Many of our students who are US-licensed clinicians and other postdocs receive fellowships from the UW Medical Center or related teaching hospitals or UW departments.
  • Deadlines for these fellowship are usually much earlier than our application deadline.
  • Eligible applicants should contact appropriate faculty in the School of Medicine/UWMC or Dentistry, as appropriate.
• UW Residencies & Clinical Fellowships: including Harborview Medical Center, Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center and VA Puget Sound Health Care Systems.
• School of Dentistry
• Postdoc Health Services Research (different from below)
• Post-PhD Health Services Research (Postdoc only)
• Post-MD Health Services Research (Postdoc only)

• PRE- AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ASSOCIATED WITH UW EPIDEMIOLOGY
  • See Fellowships Open to Epidemiology Students and Postdocs
  • The School of Public Health currently has, or is associated with, pre- and/or post-doctoral fellowships in the following areas:
    • Biobehavioral Cancer Research
    • Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (Contact Thomas L Vaughn MD, MPH and Emily White PhD)
    • Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology (Contact David Siscovick MD, MPH, Bruce Psaty MD,PhD, and Susan Heckbert MD, PhD)
    • Oral Health (Director Timorthy A. DeRoven, contact carolw@uw.edu)
    • Dual Mentor Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences (Post Docs and advanced PhD students only)
    • Maternal Child Health (for MCH MPH program only)
    • Reproductive Epidemiology
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (for postdocs & advanced PhD students only)
    • TL1 Multidisciplinary Predoctoral Clinical Research
  • Most Pre-doctoral trainees receive approximately $1800/month (less for MCH Training), a waiver of the non-resident portion of tuition, partial resident tuition support (~55%) and health insurance.
  • In addition, most trainees are able to find a 10 hr/wk RA to pay for most of the remainder of tuition.
  • Postdoctoral Fellows receive a higher salary and the faculty/staff health insurance. See Faculty/Staff Partial Tuition Exemption below.

• FELLOWSHIP SEARCH SERVICES AND LISTINGS
  • Create a list of key words about your areas of interest, professional goals, work & educational background and personal attributes to use in searching databases.
  • Fellowship & Assistantship Division of the UW Graduate School:
    • Outside Funding (Listed on UCLA website)
    • Calendar of some fellowships through UW
  • Grants & Funding Information Service (GFIS)
  • Some of the materials are only open to applicants who have paid the enrollment tuition deposits etc., students, faculty and staff only. See directions under Health Services Grants Databases below.
    • Health Sciences Grants Databases
    You may access restricted databases, as soon as you pay your tuition deposit ($100) and receive your enrollment "Personal Access Code" (PAC) and Student Number. Set up a UW NetID, follow the directions to connect to UW.
• Community of Science provides fellowship/grant search service under "Funding Opportunities".
• Fellowships for Minority Students
  • Sometimes fellowship directors or grant PI's are willing to apply for minority supplements through the NIH, although this is more common once students have completed their 1st year in the program.
  • Minority students selected for the few UW Diversity Fellowships and RAs are notified by the Department or the UW Graduate School. It is not possible to apply individually for UW diversity awards. See GFIS above for other opportunities.
• Fastweb is a computerized email notification service based on your profile. It is particularly good for smaller scholarships.

Types of Funding Available
How to Select and Contact Faculty to Look for a Research Assistant (RA) Position
Benefits Information for RAs and TAs at the UW
International Students
Accepting a Funding Offer

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Updated on April 6, 2012