Explore Yale-wide grants, fellowships, and team-based opportunities that support global health and planetary health learning. Use these options to fund travel and fieldwork, support a summer project, or join collaborative challenges that build real-world experience.
Students Grants & Fellowships
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YSN Plank Global Health Scholars
The program provides funding to Yale School of Nursing students to support their participation in global and planetary health–related activities.
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Wilbur G. Downs International Health Student Travel Fellowship
Supports Yale graduate/professional students conducting health-related research, often in LMIC settings, with travel and required expense funding.
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Gruber Fellowships in Global Justice and Women’s Rights
Post-graduate fellowships for graduating students/recent alumni to spend a year working on global justice and/or women’s rights.
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Lindsay Fellowship
Supports student research in Africa through the Council on African Studies, advancing understanding of Africa among Yale students.
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Climate Innovation Grant
Seed funding for student projects developing innovative solutions to climate change (Yale Center for Business and the Environment).
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Fox International Fellowship
Graduate student exchange program connecting Yale with international partner universities to support scholarly exchange and collaboration.
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School of the Environment Fellowships (YSE Summer Fund)
Funding for student summer projects and research in the U.S. and abroad, administered through Yale School of the Environment.
Student Grants Database
Looking for more options? Search additional Yale-wide funding opportunities through the Student Grants Database.
Team-Based Competitions
Yale Institute for Global Health Case Competition
Interdisciplinary case competition where Yale students develop solutions to pressing global health challenges with campus-wide co-sponsors.
Global Health: Yale-Collaborative Action Project (Y-CAP)
Funds teams of 2–4 Yale students to pursue a global health project, with preference for work benefiting disadvantaged populations (often Africa).
