How to Apply & Key Dates
Girish and Himangi Rishi Student Travel Awards – 2025
JHU students traveling from or to India for research or field work must apply through the following program:
Program: Global Health Established Field Placements (GHEFP)
Centre/School: Centre for Global Health
Link to Apply: GHEFP
Application Deadline: February 6, 2025,
Intended number of award(s) at India GHEFP Placement Sites: Up to 10
Interested students may contact the GHEFP program coordinator to discuss their eligibility and application process details for the GHEFP grant. The contact for travel requirements and funding is the Center for Global Health Student Program Coordinator: [email protected].
2025 GHEFP India Placement Sites
- 057-India-Protecting Households On Exposure to Newly Diagnosed Index Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients (PHOENIx MDR-TB)
- 1058-India-The I’mPossible Program: A peer‐led mentoring fellowship intervention to enhance treatment outcomes and resilience among adolescents and youth living with HIV in India
- 1059-India-The Positive Running Program: Implementation and evaluation of a physical fitness program to improve outcomes among adolescents and youth living with HIV in South India
- 1060-India-TB-SPIRIT Formative Research
- 1061-India-The India Primary Health Care Support Initiative (IPSI)
- 1062-India-Protecting Households On Exposure to Newly Diagnosed Index Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients (PHOENIx MDR-TB)
- 1063-India-Evaluating the Performance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Chest X-ray Interpretation Tool vs. Radiological, Microbiological, and Clinical Diagnoses in Detecting Tuberculosis (TB)
- 1064-India-Hybrid trial for Alcohol reduction among people with TB and HIV in India (HATHI)
- 1065-India-Improving Transgender Healthcare in India at Mitr Clinics with the ACCELERATE Program
- 1066-India-Evaluation of IeDA for improving Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) uptake and quality of care at primary healthcare facilities for scale-up in Jharkhand, India
Selection Process
- Pre-requisite completion of the CGH Global Health Established Field Placements (GHEFP) application, matching process, and program requirements.
- The CGH GHEFP Coordinator shall provide GKII with a list of candidates fulfilling the GKII eligibility criteria for India GHEFP sites.
- GKII Program Team and Faculty Review Committee shall evaluate the recommended candidates and confirm awardees in cooperation with CGH.
- The CGH GHEFP Coordinator will notify students who are awarded GKII GHRSTA grants by email. The GKII-GHEFP travel awards will be announced in April of each year.
- GHRSTA student awardees must accept GKII’s award terms and conditions to receive GKII grant funding
Key Dates
- Call for Application Opens: January 8, 2025
- Candidates Recommended to GKII: March, 2025
- GHRSTA Announcements: April, 2025
- Completion of Program: September-October, 2025
- GKII Grant Reporting Requirements: By October 30
- Lightning Presentations: TBD – GKII will notify awardees