ASTMH-Sponsored Fellowships

ASTMH-Sponsored Fellowships

Posted 14 October 2025

ASTMH-Sponsored Fellowships

Funding and Fellowships Sponsored
by ASTMH

Please note: To share equally among everyone in our tropmed community, only one ASTMH (including the Subgroups) award, travel award, fellowship and/or medal will be awarded to a single recipient in a given year.

Those who receive an ASTMH-sponsored fellowship will not be eligible to receive any Subgroup research/travel awards or ASTMH Travel Awards.

Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
Open to full-time medical students in accredited schools of medicine in the U.S. and Canada.
The next online application will be available February 25, 2026.
View the guidelines to help you prepare your application.
Frequently Asked Questions
For more information of previous recipients, click here

 

Alan J. Magill Fellowship
Open to ASTMH members that are citizens and legal residents of low/low-middle income countries.
The next online application will open in March 2, 2026
For information on previous recipients, click here.

Donald Krogstad Award for Early-Career Malian Scientists
Open to ASTMH members that are citizens and legal residents of Mali.
The next online application will open in March 5, 2026.
Review the guidelines to help you prepare your application.
For information on previous recipients, click here.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund/ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases
Open to individuals with an academic appointment of fellow at accredited schools of medicine in the U.S. and Canada who propose to perform research in tropical infectious diseases. 
Review the guidelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more from Joseph Tucker, MD, PhD, AM, former Chair of the Committee.
View a sample application to help you prepare.
For a list of previous recipients, click here

Robert E. Shope International Fellowship in Infectious Diseases
Open to full-time post-doctoral fellows (PhD, DVM, MD or the equivalent) with positions at accredited North American institutions.
Review the guidelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
For a list of previous recipients, click here.

Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research
Full-time postdoctoral fellows (PhD, MD, DVM, degrees or the equivalent) with positions at accredited U.S. or Canadian institutions.
Review the guidelines.
Frequently Asked Questions
For a list of previous recipients, click here

Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski Fellowship
Available to citizens currently working and/or living in an endemic country. Early to mid-career scientists pursuing research that aims to blend laboratory and field work on malaria genomics. Master’s degree or higher is desired with a focus malaria genomics.
Review the guidelines.

 

 

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Alan J. Magill, MD,
FASTMH 

 


Donald Krogstad, MD,
FASTMH
Benjamin H. Kean, MD
Benjamin H. Kean, MD

 


Robert E. Shope, MD
Robert E. Shope, MD
 

 

 


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 Dominic Kwiatkowsk,
FRS, FMedSci, FRCP