APHA Kaiser Permanente Community Health Scholarship

Description

About

The 2024-25 APHA Kaiser Permanente Community Health Scholarship, part of the Community Health Leadership Program, is an initiative to create a group of diverse, underrepresented public health leaders who are committed to improving the health of our most vulnerable communities and supporting achievement of health equity for all in the nation. The Program is funded by a grant from Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation.

The Scholarship supports the education of newly admitted graduate students starting their MPH or DrPH/PhD in public health in Fall 2024 at one of the Program's partner universities that are committed to training the emerging public health workforce. 

Award

Newly admitted graduate students pursuing a full-time MPH beginning in 2024-25 will receive a $15,000 tuition award each year over the course of two years of full-time study. (Morehouse College MPH students will receive a $7,500 tuition award each year.)

Graduate students seeking a full-time DrPH/PhD in public health beginning in 2024-25 will receive a $20,000 tuition award for three years. (DrPh/PhD awardees are eligible to receive their award as a stipend or in a combination of stipend/tuition in the third and last year of the award.) Recipients must maintain the academic requirements of the graduate program for the duration of the Scholarship.

Please visit the website for additional award policies and restrictions.

Requirements

Eligibility Requirements

The Scholarship is for new incoming full time Fall 2024 MPH and DrPH/PhD candidates in public health at one of our partner universities. Applicants must also be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents.

Current MPH and DrPh/PhD students are not eligible but should consider applying for the APHA Kaiser Permanente Community Health Fellowship. 

Preference is given to those who identify as first generation college graduates; persons from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and those who classify under race/ethnicity groups such as Black or African Americans, Asians, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders, and individuals from other communities of color or underrepresented populations.

Ineligibility

• Current graduate students who are already enrolled in an MPH or doctoral program.
• Dual degree programs (MSW/MPH; MPA/MPH; MPP/MPH etc.)
• Nursing, health administration (MHA), medical (MD) and undergraduate degrees (BS).
  • Prospective students seeking these degrees should discuss funding opportunities directly with the university.
• Students who are fully funded (receiving full tuition funding either from their program or outside funding source).
• Students who will be fully funded from tuition remission or tuition waivers while enrolled in their graduate degree.

 

Partner Universities

Applicants must be applying for an MPH or a DrPH/PhD in public health at one of our partner universities for the 2024-25 academic year in order to be considered:

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Georgia State University
Morgan State University
Morehouse School of Medicine
Portland State University (OHSU-PSU)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of Colorado Anschutz
University of Hawai'i
University of Washington

Recommendation Letters

The application requires two recommendation letters. Recommendation letters must be submitted by noon (EST) on January 5th, 2024.

(Recommenders will have access to upload their recommendation letters after the applicant has submitted an application. We urge applicants to stay in touch with their recommender to ensure letters will be submitted by the deadline.)

All other application items must be submitted by the competition's deadline of noon (EST) on January 4th, 2024.