30 Grants for Healthcare Students

Like scholarships, grants provide an excellent source of student financial aid that do not have to be paid back. The Federal Government offers millions of dollars each year in grants and fellowships, and private donors and organizations exceed this number easily. Unfortunately, finding the right grants can be difficult. The following is a list of thirty grants specifically targeted for the healthcare field.

1. Leadership for Healthy Communities: Advancing Policies to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living: Grant winners work with officials to foster healthier communities.


2. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Dissertation Grants: Supports grant winners in conducting research for a doctorate.


3. Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program: Established to increase the number of faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds who can achieve senior rank in academic medicine.


4. Bayer Educational Grants : Funds projects that will improve human and animal health worldwide.


5. Seton Institute Primary Healthcare Grants: Awarded to build healthier communities and reduce health inequities for underprivileged communities.


6. Active Living Research: Designed to stimulate and support research to identify environmental factors and policy that influence physical activity.


7. Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement: Grant winners work to implement a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.


8. Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City: Grant winners study mental health.


9. Virginia Health Care Foundation Grants: Applicants design their own grant proposals, yet the foundation encourages proposals which will grow Virginia's health care safety net.


10. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Conference Grants: Supports recipient sponsored and directed regional, national, or international meetings, conferences, and workshops.


11. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders: This grant provides recognition for the contributions community health leaders make to achieving RWJS's mission and goals.


12. Medicaid Leadership Institute: Grant winners participate in a program to cultivate the skills necessary to resolve health care challenges facing states and the nation.


13. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Exploratory/Development Grants: Designed to encourage new exploratory and developmental research projects.


14. Gilead: Considers grant requests from non-profit organizations for cystic fibrosis, HIV/AIDS, Influenza, pulmonary arterial hypertension, hepatitis, and chronic angina.


15. Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida Sapphire Award : Awarded to promote programs that improve the health of Florida's at-risk populations and communities.


16. Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City: Applicants can define their own grants and submit proposals.


17. Lymphoma Research Foundation: Offers a limited financial assistance grants to help uninsured and underinsured with unpaid medical bills.


18. Renal Discoveries Extramural Grant Program: Awards grants for innovation, exploration, and application of research to advance the knowledge of renal insufficiency and its treatment.


19. Purdue: Provides grants to foster improved understanding of scientific, clinical, and healthcare issues that contribute to improved patient care.


20. UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation: Awards grants to provide finical relief for families who have children with medical needs not covered or not fully covered by their commercial healthcare plan.


21. Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement: The grant's purpose is to assist rural providers with the implementation of quality improvement strategies, while improving patient care and chronic disease outcomes.


22. Small Research Grant to Improve Health Care Quality through Health Information Technology (IT): This grant supports research to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care through the implementation and use of health IT.


23. Pfizer: Pfizer is currently accepting grant applications for independent education in the areas of cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, neurology, and more.


24. American Liver Foundation Research Awards Program: Awards grants for liver research.


25. Health Care Disparities Grant Program: Grant winners help to improve the quality of health care delivered to low-income and minority Americans and work to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.


26. Nursing Workforce Diversity: Grant winners increase nursing education opportunities for individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds.


27. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Exploratory Grants: Awarded to support planning for new programs that offer potential solutions to problems of AHRQ.


28. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Small Research Project Grants: Grant winners get limited research support for studies in categorical program areas.


29. Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Demonstration Grants: Intended integrate a pediatric focus within state emergency medical services.


30. Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health: This grant is awarded to improve the health status of women, infants, children, youth, and their families.