These are one-year or two-year programs designed to provide students with mentoring, training, research, conference costs, and course work to apply and be competitive for graduate school in a variety of fields. These can also aid in improving your grades and application package with networking and research opportunities. Many seeking to diversify the fields are FREE and provide stipends as it is job training ($30-36K/year + funds for travel, health insurance, and tuition costs) while those for medical school can have a cost.
Health
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington (2 year paid, Jan 10 deadline)
PHAP Public Health Associates Training Program (2 year paid +Benefits, in public health agencies, or community health orgs, leads to job in an underserved community) January Deadline. Must be a US citizen, and have completed a Bachelors degree no more then two years before applying.
NIH A generalized list from the National Institute of Health. A variety of post-college research opportunities can be found here.
Equity, Social Justice, & Community Service
NYCCivicCorps (10month-Paid $1200/monthly +benefits and student loan deferment Sept- July)
National HealthCorps (10 months $1200/ Monthly +benefits ) in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Florida, Chicago
STEM & Behavioral Sciences
PREP Program Designed for under-represented minorities (first gen, ability, race, economic, female) seeking Ph.D. in biomedical and behavioral sciences. Free tuition, stipends for living expenses, conference costs, and health insurance. There are course-based programs as well as research-only programs. This is a great video produced by SACNAS (minority dedicated organization) that is useful for all students applying for PREP programs, with program directors, students, and other voices. Most deadlines are as early as January and as late as April. The PREP programs are located at the NIH and at many institutions and now some companies and institutions are doing their own.
GEM Fellowship prepares students from under-represented minorities for graduate school in STEM. Columbia University has a workshop/symposium for this program each year in the fall and Assistant Dean Palm has a listserve for this event fred.palm@columbia.edu.
IRTA/CRTA Program open to U.S. citizens or permanent residents who intend to apply to graduate/professional school during their tenure at the NIH. Eligibility: The Postbac IRTA/CRTA Program is for individuals who meet any ONE of the following criteria:
- college graduates who received their bachelor’s degrees less than THREE years prior to the date they begin the program,
- individuals who are more than 3 years past bachelor’s degree but received a master’s degree less than SIX MONTHS before they begin the program, OR
- students who have been accepted into graduate, other doctoral, or medical school programs and who have written permission from their school to delay entrance for up to one year to pursue a biomedical research project at the NIH.
Undergraduate to Graduate School: Bridges to the Doctorate Program (R25)Program provides students from under-represented minorities with support as they transition from masters programs to Ph.D. programs
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Post Bac Research Assistant Program in STEM, Data Science, Analytics and Visualization.
Alumni Grad School & Career Paths
Alexa Riggs completed the MPH program at Hunter/ CUNY while working full time. After graduating from Lang, she secured a full-time position as a research coordinator for a palliative care research study with terminally ill cancer patients. Her summer internship experience with Clinical Directors Network (paid Hunt Fellow), her research assistant experience stem cell research curriculum at Lang, her coursework and her senior thesis in health and behavior change in psychology helped her secure these positions. She plans to complete her PhD in public health.
Angelica Ferguson received her PhD in 2016 from Cornell Weill in Biological Chemistry. She graduated from Lang in 2007 in IS and completed traditional courses at Rockefeller while serving as a research assistant in Mike Rout’s lab (free tuition as a research assistant as part of her employee benefits), then entered the PhD program in Bacteriology at the EFPL in Global Health in Switzerland, and then transferred to Cornell Weill.
Lianna Schwartz Orbach attended the MD/PhD program at Rutgers. After graduating Lang, she worked as a bartender, a math educator at MoMath, a volunteer at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and returned to science as a research assistant in cancer and epigenetics during which time she completed her prereqs (tuition free as part of employee benefits package). Because she had completed a summer REU as a junior, and then worked in a lab after graduation, she had the skills to secure full-time employment while finishing her prereqs.
Marissa Shipman completed a self-directed BA with anthro and health and then worked full time as an animal care specialist while completing her prereqs for vet school. She was accepted in 2016, completed the first semester, but decided that she would like to move into conservation and is working on agroecology.
Ronnie Almonte completed a masters in education at NYU, but also began graduate school at University of Chicago in Biochemistry after completing a PREP program (fully funded for URM students interested in going to graduate school). He completed two undergraduate research experiences before the PREP as well. contact him via Katayoun Chamany (chamanyk@newschool.edu)
Tesaen Chavis completed the John Hopkins PREP program (fully funded for URM students interested in going to graduate school) and had intended to go into the hard sciences, but then decided that this might not be the right fit. She is now working and completing the Baruch’s School of Public Affairs MPA program, focusing on healthcare and her interdisciplinary interests in environmental health and social justice. After completing the MPA she plans to apply for Eramus Mundus programs and the Nat Geo Fulbright Fellowship. tesaen@gmail.com
Alana Proctor completed her PhD in Public Health at the University of Maastricht in Holland, after graduating from the Lang/NSSR combined BA/MA program in Interdisciplinary Science and Masters in Global Political Economy and Finance. She just published her thesis as a book. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Health, Ethics and Society at the MS in Global Health at Univeristy of Maastricht in Holland. alana.proctor@gmail.com
Anthony Jimenez completed part of a PREP Program in biochemistry after having completed courses at Cooper Union and a REU at Wadsworth in New York. He is now working as a research assistant at NYU.
Post Bac For PreMed Advice
Jenny Brustein is a practicing pediatric oncology nurse in Colorado who completed her nursing at NYU and Lang alumna who completed courses while working full time. ojenny143@hotmail.com
Laura Weber completed a PostBac at Columbia University, her MD in Chicago, and her second year of residency. lweber4@gmail.com Weber PostBac Overview & Advice 2009
Amy Walker completed a PostBac program for medical school and a graduated from the GPIA program. awalker1281@gmail.com Walker PostBac Advice Overview & Advice 2009
Katie Meile completed her Premed PostBac at NYU and is now in medical school and a graduate of GPIA and a Development Assistant for Engender Health. kathryn.miele@gmail.com Miele PostBac Overview & Advice 2010
Katleen Lozada completed her BA at NSPE, completed the PostBac at Columbia University, and was accepted to several medical schools. She is now at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also is happy to speak with students about the Mount Sinai FlexMed program that offers early admission for sophomores who have completed two semesters of biology with lab, or two semesters of physics with lab, or two semesters of chemistry with lab. katleen.lozada@gmail.com