Under NIH provisions, trainees must be United States citizens or Permanent Residents. The grant pays tuition and fees, in addition to a stipend. Postdoctoral stipends depend on the trainee's years of experience. However, the student's career interests and research project must be within the area for which the grant is funded. Present department training grants fund a number of students studying issues in cancer, cardiovascular disease, environmental, and nutritional epidemiology.
Faculty participating in administration of each grant select the trainees.
Application forms are available from the Student Services Office. Certain related programs on campus also fund epidemiology students through NIH training grants, including the Carolina Population Center, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center , Sheps Health Services Research Center , the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention , and some medical and dental programs. The Carolina Population Center and the affiliated programs do have procedures for application. Interested students should contact the program directly. Please see sections on Affiliated Programs and Additional Funding Sources for contact information.