Explore Funds

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Funds

Maternal and Child Health

Provides essential funding to the department to focus on improving the health and well-being of women, children, adolescents and families through research, practice and policy.

MSW Practicum Scholarships

Provides support for stipends to MSW students completing their required internships, often relieving them of the need for outside work for pay. 

North Carolina Institute for Public Health

Provides support to provide training, technical assistance, data analysis, strategic planning and innovative public health solutions that improve health outcomes across North Carolina and beyond.

Nutrition

Provides critical funding to the department to examine how diet and nutrition influence health and develop evidence-based strategies to prevent disease and promote wellness across the state of North Carolina. Additionally, our faculty partner with Carolina Athletics to support the health and performance of Tar Heel student-athletes.

Public Health Leadership and Practice

Provides essential resources to connect public health research with real-world practice by training professionals and partnering with communities to improve population health.

Public Health Student Scholarships

Provides support for merit scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students.

Social Work-Continuing Education

Provides support for scholarships, which allow access to cutting edge research and practices to new practitioners and recent graduates when attending may be cost prohibitive.

The Hortense McClinton Legacy Scholarship

Provide support for students interested in pursuing a social work degree to do so with limited debt, which honors the first Black faculty member at Carolina.