Library Guides: Funding/Career/Scholarship MPH Sources: Foundations & NGOs

Key Public Health Players

Wonder where to start looking for funding and internships in public health? Here's a list of public health's key players globally, including:

Multilateral Organizations
US Government Departments and Agencies
Non-Governmental Organizations
Philanthorpic Foundations

Kaiser Permanente: Key Organizations
A guide to influential public health organizations worldwide, including:
Multilateral Organizations
US Government Departments and Agencies
Non-Governmental Organizations
Philanthropic Foundations

Foundation Funding Sources

Foundation for National Institutes of Health- Health Informatics Internship
The goal of this four-year initiative is to advance the field of public health informatics by expanding the capacity of the academic world for training public health informaticians who would apply their training to improving public health practice.
Open Society Foundation
The Open Society Foundations works to establish health policies and practices that are based on evidence and promote social inclusion, human rights, and justice. Grants are available throughout the year.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
Applications are encouraged from investigators in diverse fields including sociology, economics, political science, education, anthropology, history, health and social policy, public health, medicine, nursing, allied health, law, business, philosophy, ethics, journalism, social work, the management sciences and other fields
Foundation Center
Unique databases of information on the nearly 100,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. and 2.1 million of their recent grants.

Non-Profit Organization Internships

You can find many other internships using other resources/searchable databases within this lib guide, but these are some notable opportunities within the non-profit sector.

Idealist
Idealist is a great tool to research non-profit organizations and foundations worldwide, including their database of internships and jobs.
The Akili Initiative
Comprehensive, searchable database of non-profit global health organizations (for internships and jobs).