What We Do

The NEWAID Foundation provides research funding to public health students, encouraging their involvement with traditionally neglected infectious diseases in the developing world.

2009-2010 Applications

Our current application cycle is closed for the review of submitted proposals. We will be opening to new applications for the 2010-2011 academic year in late fall of 2010.

Project Types

The NEWAID Foundation provides stipends for fellows to conduct public health research abroad of the abandoned infectious diseases of marginalized populations. These diseases include, but are not limited to: tuberculosis, malaria, trypanosomiasis, filariasis, schistosomiasis, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, leptospirosis and enteric pathogens. These projects should evaluate either the molecular, behavioral, social, or interventional epidemiology associated with these diseases.

Stipends are not to be used to implement a program unless the efficacy of that program is evaluated. Only research which examines the distribution of disease, its causes or appropriate interventions will be funded; other forms of public health research (e.g., public policy research) will not be supported nor will basic science research.