Travel Awards and Funding
Please note: To share equally among everyone in our tropmed community, only one ASTMH award (including the subgroup awards), fellowship and/or medal will be awarded to a single recipient in a given year.
Those who receive an ASTMH-sponsored fellowship will not be eligible to receive any Subgroup research/travel awards or ASTMH Travel Awards.
Those who receive a Subgroup research/travel award are not eligible to receive an ASTMH-sponsored fellowship or ASTMH Travel Award.
For questions about the Young Investigator Awards and Subgroup Awards, please contact Buffy Finn
For questions about the ASTMH Travel Awards, please contact Rhonda Schultz
All award applications are now closed. Please try again in 2026.
Young Investigator Awards
ASTMH Young Investigator Awards
Eligibility requirements - Eligibility is limited to current student/post-doctoral members of ASTMH who had a primary role in various aspects of tropical disease research and experimentation. The applicants must be available to present their research during the Young Investigator Award competition held in the morning of the opening day of the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.
Travel Awards
ASTMH/Gates Foundation Annual Meeting Travel Awards
Online applications for this year have closed. Nofications will be sent via email in mid-June.
Travel Awards are offered to qualified students, early career investigators and scientists actively working in the tropical medicine field to attend the Society’s Annual Meeting. Please contact Rhonda Schultz at [email protected] if you have questions about the ASTMH Travel Award.
Subgroup Travel Awards
Applicants will be notified in late June/early July of the outcome of their Subgroup travel award application.
American Committee on Arthropod-Borne Viruses and Zoonotic Viruses (ACAV)
Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards
Eligibility Requirements - Eligibility is limited to graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who are actively conducting arbovirus research. The award recipients will present their research either orally or as a poster during the Annual Meeting. Additionally award recipients will present “lightning talks” about their research as part of the ACAV Annual Business Meeting, which occurs during the ASTMH meeting. All presentations are in person only.
American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health - Clinical Group (ACCTMTH)
ACCTMTH Clinical Research Award
Eligibility Requirements - Eligibility is limited to students (within six months of completing undergraduate or master's level training, including medical undergraduate degrees) and post-doctoral fellows who are conducting clinically-oriented research with scientific clinical content. The applicants must be available to present their work during the award competition during the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.
American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health - Clinical Group (ACCTMTH)
ACCTMTH (Clinical Group) LMIC Clinician Travel Award
This travel award, introduced in 2023, recognizes a tropical medicine physician practicing in a low and low-middle income country who has demonstrated excellent clinical and teaching skills.
American Committee of Medical Entomology (ACME)
ACME Young Investigator Travel Awards
Please view the ACME Webinar on the YIA Travel Awards here.
ACME Young Investigator Travel Award - Graduate (Masters or Doctoral Career-Level in 2025)
Eligibility Requirements - Eligibility is limited to any graduate student who is currently conducting research that directly or indirectly involves arthropods of medical importance. The award recipient will present his/her research either orally or as a poster during the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.
ACME Young Investigator Travel Award - Post-Doctoral (Graduation to have occurred 2023-2025)
Eligibility requirements - Eligibility is limited to any post-doc who is currently conducting research that directly or indirectly involves arthropods of medical importance. The award recipient will present his/her research either orally or as a poster during the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.
ACME Young Investigator Travel Award - International (Country of primary institution must be non-US)
Eligibility requirements - Eligibility is limited to any international student who is currently conducting research that directly or indirectly involves arthropods of medical importance. The award recipient will present his/her research either orally or as a poster during the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.
American Committee of Molecular, Cellular and Immunoparasitology (ACMCIP)
Travel Award for Low and Low-Middle Income (LMIC) Trainees
Eligibility requirements - The ACMCIP student travel award will recognize an international student or trainee, not based full-time in the United States or other high-income country. Priority will be given to qualified applicants primarily living and working in a Low or Lower-Middle Income country (L/LMIC). The applicant must be a member of ACMCIP, and submit an abstract to the ASTMH Annual Meeting in the fields of molecular, cellular or immunoparasitology research. All presentations are in person only.
ASTMH Committee on Global Health (ACGH)
Student/Post-Doc Travel Awards
Eligibility requirements - Eligibility is limited to graduate students, medical students, residents and post-doctoral fellows who are members of ASTMH and ACGH and are conducting global health research and actively participating in advocacy, program implementation or networking efforts for global health. The award recipients will present their research either orally or as a poster during the Annual Meeting. All presentations are in person only.