Educational Opportunities

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security provides education and academic training focused on Health Security for students at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security teaches coursework, provides practica opportunities, supports a PhD health security track in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, and offers scholarships for students interested in the field, fellowships, and networking opportunities.

In a world of rapid innovation in the biological sciences, the emergence of new diseases, and changing environmental pressures, health security risks to the global community are a rising concern. The field of health security has a growing need for trained expertise that can provide science-based solutions and inform global policies to shape preparedness and response efforts. Currently, health security and global catastrophic biological risks (GBCRs) are not routinely integrated into the academic, research, and policy communities. The educational opportunities provided by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security enables individuals to enter the health security field and work to improve our preparedness for and in response to these potentially catastrophic public health emergencies and enhance community resilience.

Applications for the 2022-23 year are now closed. Thank you for your interest.

MPH Health Security Scholarship

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security offers a Health Security Scholarship for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Masters of Public Health (MPH) students. This scholarship is made possible by the Open Philanthropy and seeks to support MPH students with an interest in the field of health security, particularly in pandemics and GCBRs.

Awarded scholarships will cover full tuition for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health MPH degree. Up to 2 scholarships will be awarded for an academic year.

Health Security PhD Track at the Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security offers a new Health Security PhD track within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Environmental Health and Engineering Department. This track will prepare future leaders through the study of major biological and health security risks, participation in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (CHS) research activities, and mentorship from Center faculty to contribute their unique voices and skills to the academic community and ultimately inform global policies that will affect change. While topic areas in the Health Security PhD track are wide ranging, they share a common thread of reducing health security threats and their impacts, and increasing community resilience to GCBRs.

Watch the information session (October 2021) given by the track directors, Tara Kirk Sell, PhD, and Gigi Gronvall, PhD.