Scholarships

OPHS Scholarships

Check out our OPHS Scholarship List. 

The following scholarships are exclusively for current UHM public health students in the MPH, MS, and Ph.D. degree programs. 

Applications open Spring 2025 due March 2025

Elmer Anderson Professional Travel Award 

This award is exclusively for public health students who have a professional paper accepted for presentation at a national or international public health meeting held/being held between August 2025—February 2026. Applicants must be current, classified UHM graduate or doctoral students pursuing the MPH, MS, or PhD degree in the Office of Public Health Studies. The award money is to be used to defray travel costs and/or pay for meeting registration fees (up to $1,500). 

Application due October 2024 | 

Other Scholarships 

UHM CANCER CENTER 

CREATE offers first-year graduate students the opportunity to gain research experience for one semester. Each student will be paired with a faculty mentor to work in Population Sciences in the Pacific or Cancer Biology.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open until filled


Current master’s and doctoral students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are invited to apply for a graduate assistantship made available by the Pacific Island Partnership for Cancer Health Equity (PIPCHE).

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Open until filled 


Jeffrey P. Davis Student Scholarship Application

Eligible applicants for the Jeffrey P. Davis Student Scholarship should be a current student in a public health program and be a resident of the United States or U.S territories. Ideal scholarship applicants are students with a concentration in epidemiology. The scholarship will provide funding to attend the CSTE Conference in Pittsburgh June 9 - June 13, 2024, and includes Conference Registration and hotel stay. Student scholars will be guided by CSTE fellows, meet leaders in applied epidemiology, and explore an array of conference sessions. You can apply through this link. 

Applications due March 28, 2024