HRSA Grant-Funded Education

HRSA funding for the 2024-25 academic year is closed.

Funded MPH or Graduate Public Health Certificate

Students who have been granted funding for their Master of Public Health degree (MPH) or Public Health Certificate by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) are part of the effort to strengthen the public health system to meet core functions and essential services and decrease health disparities for underserved communities. 

The University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions is the recipient of $1.3 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to be used in the education and training of the nation's future public health workforce.

Western New York suffers from a severe shortage of public health workers, a challenge exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and some parts of the region have the worst health outcomes in the state. Education and training through the Public Health PRACTICE (Prepare, Respond and Collaborate to Address Inequities, COVID and other Emergencies) grant aims to address both of these issues by ensuring that area health departments and community-based organizations have skilled staff to reduce health disparities and lead COVID-19 response. 

The program funded graduate tuition for Master of Public Health (all concentrations) and Advanced Public Health Certificate program students from underrepresented backgrounds. The program is rooted in several key objectives, including educating the public health workforce to address public health inequities and health disparities, and incorporate principles of social determinants of health into practice. Another objective involves training the public health workforce to prevent, prepare for, and respond to recovery activities related to COVID-19, as well as other public health emergencies, by providing public health field experience opportunities.

Eligibility

U.S. citizens or permanent residents applying to the University at Buffalo MPH or Advanced Graduate Public Health Certificate, who meet one or more of the eligibility areas below:

Funding is now closed for the 2024-25 academic year. Future funding opportunities, if any, will be announced here after Spring 25.

Requests for funding are closed for the 2024-25 academic year. Check back here after Spring 25. If funding opportunities are available, the link to the funding request form will be accessible here. If no funding opportunities are available, the link to the funding request form will not be shown.

Continued funding support is contingent upon availability of funds from HRSA, satisfactory progress in your program which includes earning grades of B or better in all courses, and completing extracurricular HRSA trainee activities described below.

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