Student Fellowships and Employment.
On-Campus Fellowship Opportunities
There are a wide variety of paid fellowships available to you as an on-campus students. Fellowships are structured to provide significant educational, work-based experiences.
Explore some of BUSPH’s Fellowships:
Generation Health
Generation Health reduces financial barriers for students to work with organizations advancing public health in communities local to BUSPH and around the world. This initiative reduces makes it possible for BUSPH students to be paid for work with community organizations that otherwise would not be able to take on paid practicum students. On-Campus MPH students will have the chance to be awarded up to $5,000, which amounts to $20/hour for 240 hours, through a selection process that is intended for students with the greatest need.
Learn more about Generation Health
Think. Teach. Do. Fellowship
The Think. Teach. Do. (TTD) Fellowship offers SPH students an opportunity to advance public health excellence by serving as paid consultants to the School. Assigned to projects across the School, TTD Fellows collaborate with faculty, staff, and students to ensure that curricula, course materials, trainings, and research activities align with the varied and evolving needs of the global public health landscape. The Fellowship seeks to engage students with a wide range of experiences and perspectives, reinforcing our mission to “Think. Teach. Do. For the Health of All.”
Fellows are compensated at a rate of $20 per hour, with an estimated 5-10 hours of work per week for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Learn more about the TTD Fellowship
Public Health Post
Public Health Post (PHP) publishes daily on health and social justice by engaging policymakers, journalists, scholars, students, and public health professionals. PHP Fellows research and write powerful stories on health and social justice, profile leaders in health, publish 40+ articles in a year, drive the national dialogue on public health issues, and participate in a startup culture with a diverse team of writers and editors. Each PHP Fellow receives a weekly stipend and commits to a one year fellowship beginning on February 1. The application process is competitive, and opens each fall.
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Epidemiology Excellence Fellowship
The Epidemiology Excellence (E2) Fellowship is organized by the Boston University School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology. E2 is a selective academic track created to recognize and support outstanding MPH students pursuing the Epidemiology & Biostatistics functional certificate. E2 fellows complete exceptionally rigorous training emphasizing quantitative methods. The E2 program provides a challenging, enriched curriculum that extends beyond standard MPH requirements and gives students a stronger foundation in study design, analyses, and interpretation of quantitative results in health research.
E2 fellows fulfill all criteria for the MPH plus additional training via advanced coursework, research-focused seminars, a range of co-curricular activities outside of classes, and intensive analytic training that mirrors real-world epidemiologic practice. The program emphasizes deep methodological understanding, strong quantitative skills, independent inquiry, and critical thinking. Fellows are supported by faculty mentors and guided toward developing research suitable for scientific presentation and publication.
E2 prepares students for competitive research positions, doctoral programs, data science roles, and advanced careers across public health, academia, and health research organizations.
Learn more about Epidemiology Excellence Fellowship
Maternal and Child Health Center
Offered through the Maternal & Child Health Center, at least 15 fellowships are awarded each year. Research Fellows work with a faculty member on their original research and Practice Fellows are placed in local public health organizations for practice-based learning. The program is available to all students who are willing to take an introductory MCH course, MC725 or GH881, in their first semester of the fellowship (usually the second semester of the on-campus MPH program). Students are provided a stipend.
Learn more about MCH Fellowships
Center for Trauma and Mental Health Fellowships
Established in 2023 under the leadership of Jaimie Gradus, professor of epidemiology, the Center for Trauma and Mental Health is a cross-disciplinary hub for scholarship aimed at furthering understanding of stressful and traumatic events and their consequences. The Center brings together seasoned and budding researchers under the common goal of identifying vulnerable populations and studying interventions to prevent adverse health outcomes. On-Campus MPH students were matched with faculty and staff affiliated with the Center to collaborate on original research projects, receiving center funding to ensure fellows were compensated for the 50 hours they each dedicated to the work.
Learn more about the Center for Trauma and Mental Health
TIME-AD Fellowship
TIME-AD (The Triangulation of Innovative Methods to End Alzheimer’s Diseases) is a faculty-led research project offering short-term support for selected master’s students to contribute to faculty-led research projects in the fields of aging and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. Fellows work closely with a faculty mentor and are matched to projects based on the availability and alignment of interests. A stipend of $1,000 for up to 50 hours of work is awarded. The fellowship is designed to be completed over one semester or up to one academic year for MPH and MS students at BUSPH.
Learn more about TIME-AD
Community Health Sciences Fellowship Program
The Community Health Sciences (CHS) Fellowship program is designed to foster mentorship, research, and practice activities in public health and provide additional mentored hands-on experience for students interested in the field of community health. Example projects include contributing to and shaping the growth of the Healthy and Empowered Youth (HEY!) Lab working to advance adolescent and young adult health and wellbeing at the intersections of sexual, racial, and gender justice; and working with the Research Innovations for Safety and Equity (RISE) Lab to partner with the City of Boston to identify promising built environment strategies to reduce gun violence through community engagement.
PHLAIR Fellowship
AI offers public health some of its most promising opportunities in a generation: faster research, earlier detection of threats, smarter use of scarce resources, and new ways to reach people whom services have historically missed. Realizing that promise responsibly requires practitioners who pair technical fluency with public health values — who pursue AI’s benefits energetically while weighing its real costs in ethics, equity, and ecological impact.
The PHLAIR Fellowship gives MPH students a structured, mentored, and paid 100-hour research experience — starting the term after completing the Core (spring for fall entrants to the MPH program) — culminating in a research poster. Fellowship participants are selected from accepted students in BUSPH’s in-person MPH program.
Fellows work with faculty mentors drawn from across BUSPH’s six academic departments and the Center for Health Data Science, alongside seminars on responsible AI and leadership in public health.
On-Campus Student Employment Opportunities
In addition to Fellowship and Practicum support, our Career and Practicum Office is here to help you identify student employment opportunities–when you are a student and beyond. We post daily and weekly job, practicum and internship opportunities, and are available for 1:1 advising.
Via a combination of scholarships, financial aid, paid work and practicum opportunities, Boston University School of Public Health is committed to reducing the cost of your public health education at BU.
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