Summer Research Fellowship

The Center for Innovation in Global Health's annual Summer Fellowship Program is a 10-week internship open to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Chicago. Students will benefit from first-hand experience working in a research setting in Chicago and one of the partnering sites abroad. The program offers a strong local mentoring infrastructure as well as longitudinal and well-defined projects that will allow students to gain practical exposure to medical and global health research. Working as a team of 2 to 3 students, guided by a University of Chicago mentor and a site-based mentor, scholars will learn the nuances of research design, implementation, analysis, and presentation of final products including oral presentation formats, abstract development, and formal academic writing. The mentor-mentee relationship, as well as peer-to-peer mentorship, is foundational to the Summer research fellowship. Each Fellow is awarded $5,000 to cover the cost of travel, lodging, and other in-country expenses. Fellows are required to attend pre-brief and debrief orientations, preparatory seminars covering research methods and scientific integrity, and must submit a final report paper and deliver a ten-minute oral presentation.