Robert E. Shope International Fellowship

The Fellowship provides $25,000 in support for international training opportunities in arbovirology and emerging diseases for those with an MD, DVM, PhD or the equivalent. Recipients will be involved in arbovirology and/or emerging diseases from clinical to field to laboratory studies. This award provides support for a short-term research experience in the tropics in the area of arbovirology and/or emerging diseases. Eligible applicants are full-time post-doctoral fellows with positions at accredited U.S. or Canadian institutions studying any tropical infectious disease in arbovirology and/or emerging tropical infectious diseases.