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.
• Training Grants
• School of Dentistry
• Postdoc Health Services Research (different from below)
• Post-PhD Health Services Research (Postdoc only)
• Post-MD Health Services Research (Postdoc only)
• ITHS KL2 Multidisciplinary clinical research career developement program
• Faculty/Staff Partial Tuition Exemption

• 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 (rarely accepts new students)
    • Biostatisics, Epidemiologic and Bioinformatic Training in Environmental Health
    • Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Director Thomas L Vaughan MD, MPH tvaughan@uw.edu)
    • Cancer Prevention Training (Director Emily White, PhD ewhite@fhcrc.org)
    • Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology (Contact David Siscovick MD, MPH, dsisk@uw.edu Bruce Psaty MD,PhD, psaty@uw.edu and Susan Heckbert MD, PhD heckbert@uw.edu) (No open positions in 2013)
    • Center for Demography and Ecology (Must apply to training program before fellowship.)
    • Dual Mentor Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences (Post Docs and advanced PhD students only)
    • Global Health Fellowship (Northern Pacific Global Health Research Consortium)
    • Maternal Child Health (for MCH MPH program only)
    • Oral Health (Director Timorthy A. DeRoven, contact carolw@uw.edu)
    • Reproductive Pre- and Perinatal 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, faculty/staff health insurance (with monthly premium), and the Faculty/Staff Partial Tuition Exemption above.

• 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 accepted an admission offer, students, faculty and staff only. See directions under Health Services Grants Databases below.
    • Health Sciences Grant Resources
    You may access restricted databases, as soon you are admitted, accept the admission offer 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
  • See the Diversity Fellowships section of the Fellowships Open to Epidemiology Students and Postdocs above.
  • 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 January 31, 2013