Scholarship for Doctorate Degree in Public Health

Nowadays, demand for potential medical professionals is rapidly increasing. Public Health Professionals are involved in handling health care issues at mass level. Public health professionals analyze the causes and effects of common diseases among people. Professionals in public health field need to have comprehensive education in nutrition, environmental health, epidemiology etc. To encourage potential students towards public health field, scholarships for doctorate degree in public health are offered. The prime objectives of offering scholarships for doctorate degree in public health are as follow:

- To increase the number of students enrolling in public health degree program so that greater number of public health professionals can be produced for fulfilling the demand of modern era.

- To encourage native people and communities in figuring out the cause of common disease and strategies that should be adopted to prevent such diseases.

- To implement and formulate strategies for taking full advantage of research work in the field of public health.

Following institutions are providing scholarships for doctorate in public health:

•     U.S Public Health Service Commissioned Corp offer students $2500 for each month of their commissioned internship.

•     The National Environmental Health Association and American Academy of Sanitarian offers scholarship of $1, 000 monthly for providing financial assistance to needy students.

•     UCLA School of Public Health provides following scholarship in the field of public health.

•     Abelmonem Afifi Fellowship is designed for students in Public Health program with extraordinary educational achievements.

•    The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation offers following scholarships for doctorate in public health.

•     Environmental Public Health Scholarship comprises of $5000 scholarship for students who exhibit academic progress.

•     John and Mary Gerberich Public Health Scholarships are awarded to students in internships.

For continuing studies in order to acquire doctorate degree Department of Human Sciences offers maximum scholarship of $25,470 per annum. In addition to all this scholarship DHS also provide scholarship of $3000 for students to fulfill traveling and registration expenses.
It is quite evident that lots of institutions are offering scholarships for doctorate degree in public health to provide educational opportunities to all students.