Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Promoting Women in Global Health 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: November 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Promoting Women in Global Health 2026-2027. To equip and empower extra leaders in international well being, the Harvard Global Health Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, presents a transformational 1-yr fellowship particularly designed to advertise management expertise in people from low- and center-revenue nations who will, in flip, mentor future feminine leaders in international well being.

The fellowship expertise offers international well being leaders time to mirror, recalibrate, and discover uncharted territories. To date, fellows have come from 18 completely different nations, with illustration from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America. Their areas of focus have ranged from HIV/AIDS and healthcare to well being coverage on the highest ranges of presidency. Past fellows’ areas of experience span disciplines together with analysis, advocacy, administration, and coverage.

Curriculum Components

A Harvard LEAD fellowship is a transformative expertise designed to empower and promote rising leaders in international well being. A extremely personalised program, the fellowship is tailor-made to suit the distinctive objectives and aspirations of every of our fellows. While in residence, fellows could have entry to world-class school, lessons, and government education schemes that can encourage and problem them in new, inspiring methods. The curriculum consists of:

• Executive Leadership Training: LEAD Fellows work with an government coach to maximise this system curriculum. Through the 1:1 teaching periods, LEAD Fellows will perceive their management fashion, combine their learnings from Harvard course work, and assist to develop simpler management expertise and approaches. The teaching consists of particular person and group conferences with all Fellows to overview and align on timeline, goals, evaluation course of, and many others. TypeCoach management fashion evaluation Implementation and particular person debriefs of the Leadership Versatility Index (LVI) 360 representing a cross-part of stakeholders.  Coaching periods happen just about throughout the first few months of the fellows and resume after lessons are full to help in re-entry, integration of fabric, and ultimately this system shut-out.  
• 1:1 Mentorship: Each fellow will probably be launched to Harvard school mentors with aligned pursuits. Fellows are inspired to satisfy month-to-month with their mentors all through the 12-month fellowship interval. These conferences will function an OPPORTUNITY for fellows to obtain formal profession advising, develop their networks and spark collaboration alternatives. Mentors which have been assigned to the earlier cohorts of LEAD fellows have included Dr. Ana Langer, Dr. Rifat Atun, Dr. Kathryn Rexrode, Dr. Megan Murray, Dr. Adeline Boatin, Dr. Shekhar Saxena, Dr. Margaret Kruk and Professor Alicia Yamin.  
• Speaking Opportunities: Fellows could have the chance to talk at international well being occasions all through the fellowship interval and past. In earlier years, fellows have served as panelists, audio system, matter consultants and directed and arranged in executing LEAD fellowship occasions. Speaking alternatives will permit the guy to construct networks, showcase their work and improve their public talking expertise as a pacesetter. 
• An Executive Education Course: As a core course, LEAD Fellows will take part in an government schooling course throughout their time in-person in Cambridge, MA. In the previous, Fellows have participated in the Women and Power course supplied by the Harvard Kennedy School.  
• Private Leadership Masterclasses led by Harvard Faculty on varied management subjects (negotiation, public talking, communication, determination-making): Fellows will attend management masterclasses solely designed for the LEAD fellows. These small, extremely interactive periods tackle key management expertise and are led by consultants from Harvard and the worldwide well being neighborhood. In earlier years, the workshop program coated subjects together with: 
  • Self Promotion
  • Public Speaking and Effective Communication
  • Negotiation
  • Crisis Management and Leadership
  • Writing and Analysis for Persuasive Communication
  • Navigating Bias and Designing Equitable Organizations as a Women Leader
  • Leadership Decision Making
  • Conflict Resolution

Benefits

• Fellows are solely required to take a depart of absence from their work obligations throughout their time in residence on campus, which is predicted in April of 2027 for 6 weeks. The in-residence month on campus is financially coated by the fellowship award and fellows will probably be supplied a stipend for logistical bills (i.e. housing, flights to and from Cambridge, MA, course charges and each day per diem for meals and transportation).  

Eligibility

• They welcome candidates from all continents, areas, disciplines, sectors, genders, and gender identities. Candidates nominate themselves by submitting an application for the fellowship.
• Applicants should have a minimal of a grasp’s diploma in a related discipline. 
• Applicants should work full-time in the sector of worldwide well being and have not less than 10 years {of professional} expertise. Work accomplished as a college pupil doesn’t rely as skilled expertise. 
• Applicants should have the complete assist of their employer and a champion in their group who serves as a reference. 
• Applicants should take a depart of absence (or equal) from their home establishment throughout their in-residence expertise for 6 weeks in April 2027. 
• Applicants should be capable of receive a J-1 visa for journey to the United States and should be capable of reside in Boston, MA. NOTE: Visa charges, housing, and flights will probably be coated underneath the fellowship and a dwelling stipend will probably be supplied for the weeks in residence. 
• During the 2 years previous to arrival at Harvard, the fellows shouldn’t have participated in a full-time fellowship that lasted 4 months or longer. 

Application

Your application requires:

• CV/Resume 
• A Letter of Intent (not more than 1.5 pages in size) The letter of intent ought to describe your skilled journey in international well being and why/how the LEAD fellowship could be transformative for your group and your nation.  
• Four essays (not more than 2000 characters every)
  • Essay 1: Plan for Career Development/Training Activities 
  • Essay 2: Project Plan 
  • Essay 3: Candidate’s Plan to Provide Mentoring 
  • Essay 4: Fellowship Impact on Candidate’s Organization, Field, and Home Country 
• A Letter of Institutional Commitment from their home establishment that helps their proposal to affix the fellowship program. It can also be important to doc the establishment’s dedication to permit the candidate a depart of absence throughout April to focus solely on the LEAD fellowship curriculum actions in residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 
• A Letter of Mentor Commitment from somebody inside your group or community that could be a champion of your skilled growth. 
• Two further letters of reference. At least one reference should be out of your present/most up-to-date skilled engagement and should be completely different from the Letter of Mentor Commitment. 

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For extra info, go to Harvard LEAD Fellowship.