Fellowships & Internships

GCCHE envisions that all health professionals throughout the world–doctors, nurses, and public health leaders and practitioners will be trained to prevent, reduce, and respond to the health impacts of climate change. We created the 1-year intensive Climate and Health Education Student Fellowship to educate and empower the next generation of health professions students to become global climate and health leaders and communicators in their respective fields and within interdisciplinary collaborations. Applications open on January 8, 2024, and close on March 31, 2024, at 11:55 PM EST.

Training physician-leaders in research, advocacy and policy-making. The Climate and Human Health Fellowship trains physicians to examine and advance evidence-based policies that help build climate-resilient communities and health systems. This two-year experiential fellowship training includes a master’s degree in public health (research methodology) at Harvard Chan, research projects focused on community- and hospital-based resilience and response strategies, and policy and advocacy training with partners in Washington, DC and elsewhere.

Fellows hold clinical appointments at the BIDMC Department of Emergency Medicine and Harvard Medical School and are based at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard C-CHANGE). In addition, they will be mentored by faculty from across Harvard, including the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

The fellowship is part of the CHF Consortium on Climate & Health Science Policy in partnership with the Climate & Health Science Policy Fellowship at the University of Colorado. Off-site education is obtained through internships and visiting scientist opportunities at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and other sites. The application deadline is September 15th, annually. For more information visit the Climate and Human Health website. Application can be found here.

The Physician Fellowship in Climate Medicine at the University of Colorado is a 1-year training program designed to train highly credible and knowledgeable climate and health policy leaders. The fellowship is open to all medical specialists and can be done on a half-time, remote basis over the course of a year while clinical work is continued. Fellows gain field experience by working within Federal Partner agencies (CDC, NOAA, EPA, NIH, USGCRP) and within non-profit organizations. The deadline for applications is October 1st for fellowships commencing the following summer.

Fellowships available for the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) new Master of Science in Climate and Health (U-MSCH) graduate program.

The Emerging Physician Leader Award was established by the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network in 2018 to support the next generation of physician climate and sustainability leaders. The award recognizes medical students, residents, and fellows who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing environmentally responsible, climate-smart health care through mitigation, resilience, and leadership, along with working on climate solutions to protect health. 

• Free registration to CleanMed Salt Lake City from May 21-23
• Up to three nights in the CleanMed Salt Lake City conference hotel
• A travel stipend for transportation to and from the conference
• A $1,000 grant to support a project that aligns with the goals of the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network to support physician and medical student action to reduce the environmental impact of health delivery and promote climate-smart health care through mitigation, resilience, and leadership

Applications for the 2024 award are open. Apply by Jan. 29, 11:59 PT.

Each year, Health Care Without Harm will select an annual cohort of early-career clinicians for this fellowship and connect them with each other, internal and external subject matter experts, and our partner health systems to support their ideas and growth. The Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship participants will be equipped with tools for climate and sustainability-related education, organizing, communications, research, and leadership that they can put to use throughout their careers.

Fellows receive a full scholarship to attend CleanMed and a $1,000 grant to complete a project that aims to demonstrate scalable solutions that can be shared with our health care network, broader academic circles, and the general public.

Fellows will have an advisory group at Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth for mentorship during the fellowship year, and will be supported in writing an article or op-ed for local press or a media site about the need for health care to focus on climate, health, and equity. In addition, fellows will be encouraged to submit articles for publication in select journals and present work at conferences. Upon completion, these leaders will join a cohort of past fellows.

Applications for the 2024 award are open. Apply by Jan. 29, 11:59 PT.