A just and equitable world requires diverse health care leaders.

NMF fights to provide equitable access to health care by offering scholarships, service-learning, and mentorship opportunities to students underrepresented in medicine and behavioral health. NMF also works to diversify clinical research through its Emerging Investigator training program. 

A just and equitable world requires diverse health care leaders.

National Medical Fellowships provides need-based and merit scholarships to Black, Indigenous, Latine, People of Color students of medicine and other health professions and works to increase diversity in clinical research. 

77+

years of providing scholarships and support to students chronically underrepresented in medicine.

$5.1 M

in scholarships and other financial assistance were awarded through all of NMF's programs in the last two years to students of medicine and other health professions.

32 K +

NMF alumni form a network of health care leaders committed to eliminating unnecessary and preventable health disparities.

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The Need for NMF

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Equity-minded health professionals from the very communities that endure the highest levels of health inequity in this nation are needed more than ever to address the well-earned historical and present-day causes of mistrust in health care. NMF is eliminating the barriers to medical education and investing in the health care leaders of tomorrow.

“NMF empowers its scholars with the training, resources, and speakers necessary to become community health advocates and effectively navigate medical school. I can only imagine the kinds of projects that will continue to be developed by NMF scholars, because when you give intelligent people the right resources, funding, and platform to do something good for others, that is a recipe for change.”   

Jonathan Tyes

NMF Health Equity Leaders Program Scholar

NMF's Impact from a Medical Student's Point of View

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We invite you to view a special message from NMF scholar Peiton Jarmon, a third year medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine.