Carolina Undergraduate Health Fellowship

Deadline: Thursday, March 20, 2009

Program Purpose
The Carolina Undergraduate Health Fellowship (CUHF) enables promising UNC undergraduates to create a self-designed health-related project anywhere in the world. The fellowship is an investment in talented students whose medical and cultural experience will strengthen the future of health care both in the United States and globally.

The goals of CUHF are to prepare students to become successful leaders in the health care profession by:

• exposing them to practical (rather than purely observational) health care scenarios;
• increasing their cultural sensitivity and adaptability through direct interaction with unfamiliar cultures and people;
• presenting them with different health care and medical systems.

Eligibility and Restrictions

• Any returning UNC undergraduate may apply;
• Preference is given to applicants whose financial needs would otherwise not allow them to pursue such a project;
• Successful applicants are required to give at least one presentation on the project findings at the Center for Global Initiatives’ annual Research Symposium and must be available to serve on the CUHF Selection Committee the following spring term.

Revised application instructions and criteria for review coming soon!