Scholarships

The Bloomberg School of Public Health awards highly competitive tuition scholarships to a small portion of the incoming full-time class. All applicants admitted to the full-time MPH program are considered for a number of merit-based scholarships. Your admission application materials serve as your scholarship application. With the exception of a few of the scholarships listed below, no additional forms need to be submitted in order to be considered.

Factors Considered by the Review Committee

All of our scholarships are merit-based. Important factors include academic excellence, leadership potential, a strong professional background and the potential to have an impact in the field of public health. We are very fortunate to attract outstanding applicants to our program. All aspects of the application are important for the scholarship review process, particularly personal statements, academic records, and letters of reference. Timely submission of ALL of admissions material is important as well. Applicants who elect to submit their application without a standardized test score are at a disadvantage.

Available Scholarships

• The Sommer Scholars Program is a prestigious scholarship that fully funds outstanding scholars and leaders who have the potential to become the public health heroes of the future. The MPH program awards fifteen of these awards to full-time MPH students each year. The scholarship includes a full-tuition scholarship as well as a living stipend. Both U.S. and international students are eligible. Applicants are encouraged (but not required) to indicate in their statements of goals and experience why they merit selection as Sommer Scholars.

• The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health MPH Scholarship is a full scholarship awarded to five full-time MPH students who aspire to work in an international context. The Center for Global Health coordinates the integrated efforts of professionals in the clinical, research, programmatic, policy and educational domains and collaborates with an extensive network of international colleagues and collaborators in order to combat threats to health, especially in developing countries. Recipients may be either international or U.S. students. Special consideration is given to nursing and medical students at Johns Hopkins University.

• The Watt-Hansell Scholarship was established in 1994 by James Watt, MD, DrPH '36, and Myron Wegman, MD, MPH '38. The late Dr. Watt was the first of four generations of Watt/Hansell Hopkins graduates to combine medical studies with training in public health. James Watt was a Diplomate of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. His crusade to promote public health led to the creation of the Watt/Hansell Endowment, which supports the cross-training of students in the schools of Public Health and Medicine. The Watt/Hansell Endowment provides funding for medical students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who wish to pursue public health training at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Typically one full-time MPH student receives a full-tuition scholarship award funded by this endowment.

• The Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program provides intensive learning experiences that will prepare Johns Hopkins medical students interested in clinical research careers to be exemplary researchers (in any discipline, specialty or subspecialty). The program has funding for 8 to 10 students per year and includes partial tuition as well as stipend support. Students who are accepted into this program will be exposed to structured curricula in study design, epidemiology and biostatistics. They will also have the opportunity to work with a mentor who is a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty to design and implement a research study and write up the results for publication. For more information, please contact Ms. Michelle Moody, Sr. Academic Program Coordinator.

• The HRSA Training Grant provides one to two partial or full scholarships for outstanding incoming full-time MPH students who are interested in working in leadership roles within the public health sector in several HRSA designated shortage areas: epidemiology, maternal and child health, biostatistics, environmental health, health services delivery, and public health preparedness.

• American Indian Scholarship provides funding and mentor support for American Indian masters students who aspire to serve the health needs of American Indian tribes. Scholarship awards vary from full to partial tuition and a small living stipend. Priority for the scholarship award is given to students who are enrolled in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Additional Endowed Student Funding provides partial scholarships to incoming MPH students each year. Your admission application materials serve as the application for these scholarships.

Scholarship Awards Notification

Scholarship decisions are generally made by March of each year. Students will typically receive a letter of acceptance into the program before scholarship decisions are announced.

Other Sources of Funding

The School also maintains a Student Funding Resource Office that provides information about other sources of funding. The Student Funding Resource Office has special features for external sources of funding such as the NIH National Research Service Award (NRSA), NIH Research Supplements, Fulbright Funding, Training Programs, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.

The School also has a Financial Services Office whose primary role is to help domestic students apply for federal aid.