Harvard Global Health Institute Visiting Research Scholarship Program 2025-2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 19, 2025

Applications are open for the Harvard Global Health Institute’s Visiting Research Scholarship Program 2025-2026. The Harvard Global Health Institute’s Visiting Research Scholarship Program affords Harvard college the OPPORTUNITY to host a world collaborator in international well being for a six-week, in-individual residency in Boston, MA. The program is designed to strengthen partnerships, foster educational trade, and advance shared analysis objectives.

The Harvard sponsor have to be a Harvard college member at any college or affiliated hospital, and the visiting scholar ought to have a doctoral diploma in a related diploma. Demonstrated proof of great collaborative work with the sponsor, or the foundations for vital collaborative work, is required. This may very well be publications of peer-reviewed manuscripts, codeveloped instructional curricula, partnership on coverage, or service work.

Award

• Awarded Harvard college will advance collaboration with their international companions via a 6 week in-individual expertise for educational collaborators at Harvard University.
• Visiting students can have their in-residence time on campus financially lined via the fellowship award. Scholars shall be supplied with a lump sum stipend for logistical bills (i.e. housing, flights to and from Cambridge, MA, medical insurance, J-1 visa charges, and a day by day per diem for meals).

Eligibility

Harvard Faculty Collaborator

• Harvard sponsor have to be a Harvard college member at any college or affiliated hospital. 
• Sponsor should reveal vital engagement with visiting scholar previous to the go to (this chance is targeted on deepening current relationships, not creating new collaborations). 
• The sponsoring mentors’ main Harvard division should agree to supply the required educational appointment (HUID) and sponsor a J-1 visa for the visiting scholar.
• Sponsoring mentor should conform to develop a piece plan and meet often with their visiting students throughout their time on campus and make a powerful case that in-individual collaborative time could be helpful. 

HGHI Visiting Research Scholar 

• The Visiting Scholar ought to have a doctoral diploma in a related subject. Exceptional candidates with a grasp’s diploma shall be thought of. 
• Demonstrated proof of great collaborative work with the sponsor, or the foundations for vital collaborative work, is required. This may very well be publications of peer-reviewed manuscripts, codeveloped instructional curricula, partnership on coverage, or service work. 
• The Visiting Scholar have to be in good standing with their home establishment. 
• An lively passport and the flexibility to acquire a J-1 visa for journey to the United States is required. 
• The Visiting Scholar should reside within the Boston, MA space throughout their time in residence.
• Candidates should fulfill visa necessities for English language.

Selection Criteria

• There is demonstrated lengthy-time period collaboration between the visiting scholar and the Harvard college mentor, for which this chance will advance a physique of labor. 
• The sponsoring Harvard mentor’s home division is dedicated to supporting the visiting scholar administratively by offering a non-college educational appointment and a J-1 visa. 
• The Visiting Scholar would profit professionally from an in-individual expertise at Harvard University. This must be clearly described within the application. 
• Priority shall be given to students who in any other case wouldn’t have the chance to take part in such an in-individual program at Harvard, and to thematic areas of labor aligned with HGHI’s areas of curiosity, together with well being fairness, local weather change and well being, infectious illnesses, digital transformation, international well being financing, well being justice, and group-engaged programming.  

Application

Note that the application will request the data beneath:  

• Name of visiting scholar 
• Country of origin 
• Position in home nation 
• CV of visiting scholar 
• 1–2-web page narrative describing the analysis collaboration and justification for journey to the U.S. for in-individual collaboration.
• 2 Letters of Reference addressed to the Harvard Global Health Institute.
  • One letter from the visiting students’ home establishment permitting a 6-week go away of absence from work duties 
  • One letter from the sponsoring Harvard mentor describing the justification for in-individual time to help their analysis collaboration. The letter also needs to describe the sponsoring college member’s workplan for the visiting scholar all through their time on campus 

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For extra info, go to HGHI Scholarship.