Clinical Degree Full-Time Opportunities

Key points

  • Learn about CDC's full-time fellowship opportunities for those who have or will soon have a medical, veterinary, or other clinical degree.
  • These opportunities are one or two years long and offer unique experiences that can help develop a public health career path.
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Opportunities & Updates

May Open Applications

Who can participate

Program Description
CDC Dental Public Health Residency Program This formal training program produces skilled specialists in dental public health who can work collaboratively with their public health and dental colleagues to achieve improved oral health for populations.

Open To
Doctor of Dental Surgery or Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry and a Master of Public Health

Length/Salary
2 Years, paid

Application Period
August to September
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) EIS officers serve on the front lines of public health protecting Americans and the global community as “boots on the ground” epidemiologists. CDC’s EIS officers respond to outbreaks of diseases and urgent public health threats by identifying the cause, rapidly implementing control measures, and collecting evidence to recommend how to prevent similar events in the future.

Open To
Physicians, veterinarians, doctoral-level scientists, and allied healthcare professionals.

Length/Salary
2 Years, paid

Application Period
March to May
*Emory/CDC Medical Toxicology Fellowship Hands-on training in public health, environmental health, and epidemiology, as well as clinical toxicology education. Fellows participate in international and domestic chemical-associated outbreak and public health investigations.

Open To
Medical graduates who have or are able to obtain a medical license to practice in the US and who have successfully completed an ACGME-accredited primary residency

Length/Salary
2 Years, paid

Application Period
July to October
Future Leaders in Infections and Global Health Threats (FLIGHT) CDC leadership program that prepares participants, known as FLIGHT officers, to address global public health threats.

Open To
Physicians and veterinarians in the most recent graduating class of CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)

Length/Salary
3 Years, paid

Application Period
September
The Gilstrap OBGYN Fellowship is an opportunity to join the clinical practice of obstetrics and gynecology with public health by working with various groups at CDC.

Open To
Applicants must have a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic medicine degree, must have completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency within the last five years, and must be Board-eligible or Board-certified through ABOG at the time of employment.

Length/Salary
1 year, renewal up to 2 years depending on funding

Application Period
Now through June 1
*The Joint ID/EIS Fellowship The Joint ID/EIS Fellowship offers a structured opportunity to expand public health and global health skills and leadership. Experiential training begins with an infectious disease fellowship (first cohort in July 2024) and continues with the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship (first cohort in July 2026).

Open To
Infectious disease physicians

Length/Salary
4 Years, paid

Application Period
March to July
*Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency Program (LAMRP) Comprehensive training in laboratory animal medicine.

Open To
Veterinary degree (DVM)

Length/Salary
4 Years, paid

Application Period
October to December
*ORISE CDC Research Opportunities Education experience to create expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health.

Open To
Undergraduates; graduate; post-master’s; doctoral; postdoctoral

Length/Salary
Varies, paid

Application Period
Varies
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global HIV & TB Mission of this fellowship program is to recruit, mentor, and train scientist-practitioners to conduct global HIV and TB research and to develop the translational and applied skills necessary to implement and support high-quality HIV and TB public health programs in global settings. Fellows will be trained to understand the underpinnings of interventional epidemiology and to prepare them for a career operating at the intersection of science and practice in global public health.

Open To
Doctoral-level researchers (e.g., behavioral scientists, epidemiologists, social scientists, evaluators, educators, economists, anthropologists, or medical doctors with research training and/or experience)

Length/Salary
2 Years, paid

Application Period
May-June
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in HIV Prevention for Communities of Color Mission is to recruit, mentor, and train investigators to conduct domestic HIV and AIDS prevention research in communities of color. Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to design, conduct, and evaluate scientifically sound, culturally appropriate, HIV and AIDS prevention research activities in communities of color.

Open To
Doctoral-level researchers, i.e., PhD, ScD, DrPH in behavioral sciences, social sciences, epidemiology, public health, or MD/MPH

Length/Salary
2 Years, paid

Application Period
September to October

*Denotes fellowships offered in partnership with CDC

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Public Health Infrastructure Center; Division of Workforce Development