Global Health Fellows

Each year, the Global Health And Development program at the Dickey Center for International Understanding selects a cohort of Global Health Fellows for engagement in regular, directed, and co-curricular activities in global health methods, equity, access, security, and leadership. As a Global Health Fellow, you will engage a diverse community of faculty, students, and global health practitioners around the world to discuss how individuals, groups, and institutions can best address the complex global challenges around health and wellness, human rights, health security, planetary health, health diplomacy and other topics. Issues of health disparities and structural inequities in global health systems are central to all of these discussions.

The Global Health Fellows program is funded in part by the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.

Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort closed on September 6.  They will reopen again in May of 2025 for the 25-26 cohort. You must reapply each year.

Global Health Retreats

• You will attend at least one of the two weekend retreats, one at the start of Fall term and the other at the start of Winter term. You will have the opportunity to participate in workshops and community building activities. The focus of the retreats is to encourage and guide you to think critically about global health issues and how to advance collaborative solutions with and for global partners. 

Speaker Series and Discussions

• You will build your skills and knowledge by engaging with global health leaders, participating in skills sessions and learning from each other.

Methods Workshops and Simulations

• Each term, you will engage in a diversity of methods workshops and practical simulations, ranging from public health data visualization to pandemic response strategies. These workshops and simulations bring together students and faculty to engage in multidisciplinary learning and problem solving.

Experiential Education Opportunities

• You will enjoy access to a wide range of resources as they pursue experiential education and service opportunities, internships, independent research projects, and other endeavors related to global health. The GHFellows program helps to connect fellows with potential opportunities and advice and support fellows in the pursuit of internships and other programs.

Eligibility: Global Health Fellows is open to Dartmouth sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates, as well as medical, MBA, MPH, and graduate students from all disciplinary backgrounds. The GHFellows program runs from fall term through spring term. Applications open twice, once in the spring term and once in late summer before the fall term.

If selected as a GHFellow, you do NOT need to achieve certification to attend programming throughout the academic year.  To receive annual certification as a Global Health Fellow, applicants must:

• attend EITHER the Fall or Winter Retreat,
• attend at least seven other GHF events over the academic year, and  
• engage in and complete at least one community health project, submitting one paragraph summary of the project

Preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated interest in issues of global health through academic coursework, co-curricular activities, and/or internship and work experiences.

Participation in an international internship or program is NOT a prerequisite for selection for the program.  

Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort closed on September 6.  They will reopen again in May of 2025 for the 25-26 cohort. You must reapply each year.

For more information, please contact Dawn.E.Carey@dartmouth.edu.