Hopkins Students: How the Center Can Help You

Resources for Students

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health offers a variety of services to enhance Hopkins students' educations in global health. Please feel free to contact us with questions or requests at globalhl@jhsph.edu.

Funding

Framework Program in Global Health

• Supports fellowships for short-term overseas research experiences to address global health issues
• Available to undergraduate and graduate students   
• Students required to work with a faculty mentor
• Applications can be found on our website

Scholarships

• 5 Global Health Master of Public Health (MPH) and 5 Global Health Master of Health Sciences (MHS) Scholarships pay full tuition
• All accepted students to the MPH and MHS programs at the Bloomberg School of Public Health are eligible

Global Experiences and Funding

• Lists of global internships and fellowships on our website
• Past students have worked in Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Belize, Uganda, and many more

Education

• Hopkins offers courses related to global health topics at the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and School of Advanced International Studies. See the listing on our website.
• Global Health Leaders Forum brings global health leaders to campus to speak on relevant topics
• The Center is facilitating new global health curriculum across the university

Resources Online
Visit the Center’s website at www.hopkinsglobalhealth.org for a wealth of global health resources:

• Searchable database of Hopkin’s international research activities
• Features on global health activities at Hopkins
• Funding opportunities              
• Weekly global health email bulletins
• E-newsletter archive                                           
• Global health headlines updated weekly        
• Global health announcements        
• Up-to-date listings of events on- and off-campus

Project Support

The Center for Global Health works with students in a variety of ways to support their work in global health. In the spring of 2007, Center for Global Health Director Thomas Quinn and Associate Director Chris Beyrer joined with Hopkins students to circulate and sign the Philadelphia Consensus Statement, a national Universities Allied for Essential Medicines policy document advocating humanitarian access licensing and increased funding for research in neglected diseases.

Global Health Student Groups

Bloomberg School of Public Health:

• African Public Health Network
  Contact: aphn@jhsph.edu  
• Chinese Students and Scholars Association
  Contact: Lufang Zhou, Lindsey Yang   
• Health and Human Rights Group
  Contact: Gila Niles, Pritika Chatterjee   
• International Health Student Group
  Contact: Emma Sacks 
• JB Grant International Health Society  
  Contact: jbg@jhsph.edu
• Latin Student Network
  Contact: G. Christian Baldeviano  
• South Asian Association of Hopkins Medical Institutions
  Contact: saahmi@jhsph.edu  

School of Nursing

• International Health Organization
  Contact: Liz Noyes, Julianne McKeever, Jean Garcia  

School of Medicine

• Global Health Interest Group
  Contact: Maya Venkataramani, Alex Billioux, Meraf Wolle, Kate Distler  
• Johns Hopkins International Services
  Contact: Murray Welsh