USF Center of Excellence in MCH Education, Science, and Practice

The USF's Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, is one of thirteen prestigious MCH training programs for Schools in Public Health in the nation. Each year the Center selects a small cohort of master and doctoral students as MCH Scholars for a specialized training program. Students who are selected as scholars will receive a full-time in-state tuition waiver (18 credits) and a stipend (approximately $18,000) to be divided over the 2-semester program, travel support to attend conferences, and individualized community and academic mentoring.

• Eligible students must be enrolled full-time (9 credits) in the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

• Due to the nature of the federal funding mechanism, we are only allowed to provide this scholarship to U.S. citizens or permanent residents

• Students from all graduate degree programs and concentrations within the College of Public Health with an MCH focus are eligible to apply. Because selection for this competitive traineeship is highly based on MCH leadership experience and potential, students in their second year (or greater) more closely fit the criteria. However, newly admitted students with significant prior MCH experience and future leadership potential can apply

• Click here to apply for Spring 2023

The USF’s Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, is one of thirteen prestigious MCH training programs for Schools in Public Health in the nation. Each year the Center selects a doctoral student who conducts state and/or local-level analyses on MCH topics as the basis for their dissertation or doctoral project. The selected doctoral student will receive a stipend of $16,544 (divided into two semesters, no tuition waiver is provided), which is meant to support the student to gain skills that can be utilized in developing a leadership role in MCH epidemiology (especially at the state and local level) and improve the scholar’s capacity to evaluate, refine, augment, collect, and analyze both traditional and wellbeing measures of maternal and child health. Preference will be given to topics that illustrate the use of state or local data to plan state or local needs assessments, interventions, policies, or planning.

• Eligible students must be enrolled full-time for the duration of the traineeship, which is 1 academic year (i.e., enrolled 9 credits in the Fall 2023, 9 credits in the Spring 2024, and 6 credits in the Summer 2024).

• Due to the nature of the federal funding mechanism, we are only allowed to provide this scholarship to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

• All doctoral students who are enrolled at the College of Public Health are eligible to be funded by this grant. Doctoral students from all concentrations are welcome to apply but their dissertation topic must be with MCH focus using existing local or state-level (Florida) datasets. A doctoral student is eligible as long as their dissertation topic relates to MCH and also meets the other requirements.

• Click here to apply for Fall 2023

These are two-year fellowships funded by the HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau federal grant, Strengthening the MCH Public Health Academic Pipeline, with particular foci on research pertaining to maternal/infant health, child/adolescent health, women’s health, sexual/reproductive health, family/community violence, and unintentional injury. There is specific interest in recruiting individuals from racially/ethnically diverse backgrounds in addition to other underrepresented minority backgrounds.

 Fellows will be mentored by matched research faculty and develop plans for professional growth. In addition, the postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with MCH faculty and postdoctoral fellows in other MCHB-funded programs, as well as with Title V and other MCH organizations and partners locally, regionally, and nationwide. Postdoctoral MCH research fellows will also participate in/lead classes and seminars. Support for professional conferences and other dissemination activities will be provided. Fellows will teach one or two graduate classes per year and be expected to further their research by developing grant proposals with faculty and publishing them in the peer-reviewed literature, in addition to collaborating with ongoing MCH faculty research.

For all other questions specific to this program, please contact Dr. Ellen Daley at edaley@usf.edu.

The USF's Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, is one of thirteen prestigious MCH training programs for Schools in Public Health in the nation. Each year the Center recognizes the development of new leadership with the MCH Leadership Professional Development Award, which is used to support eligible and active graduate students to participate in an MCH conference.

• A limited number of awards are available (approximately 5 awards). Each applicant can request up to $1000

• Due to the nature of the federal funding mechanism, we are only allowed to provide this scholarship to U.S. citizens and permanent residents

• College of Public Health students from the MPH and MSPH programs with an MCH concentration track (MCH and MCH-Epidemiology) and students who are pursuing an MCH-related research area in the PhD program with a Community Family Health concentration are eligible to apply

• Click here to apply for Fall 2023