The San Diego State University Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training program (SDSU MHIRT) is a component of the national MHIRT program funded by the National Institutes of Health. We offer international training experiences to students from health disparity backgrounds with a goal of encouraging such students to pursue careers in biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research. The ultimate mission of the MHIRT program is for MHIRT trainee alumni, through their careers as researchers and medical professionals, to work to reduce, and eventually eliminate, healthcare disparities in the United States.
For more information, please visit our program overview page.
08
Oct.
Applications will be made available online.
15
Dec.
Application deadline. Your complete application [application form, transcripts, personal statement and letters of recommendation] must be received by midnight on December 15, 2017. Incomplete submissions will not be considered. You can send an unofficial transcript with your application, but the official transcript must arrive by January 13, 2018.
01
Feb.
Acceptance announcements and packets sent out.
15
Feb.
Accepted trainees must return their acceptance package, including travel insurance and stipend forms. All fellows without a passport valid for 6 months past September 2017 must either apply for their passport or renew their current passport at their own expense. Accepted fellows must return completed acceptance packet or forfeit fellowship offer.
To see a complete list of important dates and get more information on the MHIRT program application process, please click the button below to learn more about applying to the MHIRT program online. Thank you!
Week 6 started with Liz and I meeting a team from the Ministry of Health who asked us to help them with malaria surveillance. We went up to Muraba Health Center, where we went through logbooks and reported cases of Malaria on an excel sheet for the ministry. Out of the 400 or so people
We are officially halfway through the program and our time in Uganda, which is bittersweet. It feels like we are just getting started in some ways but time is passing quickly. This week I dived into the pesticide project which was only possible through the help of the DHO and Spotlight on Africa, who had
As I’m getting close to returning to the U.S. I’m starting to think more about how different it will be once I go back. How weird it will feel to drive everywhere instead of using city bikes and the Kaohsiung MRT. Not having to rely on google translate and pointing at pictures to order food
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