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.