Center For Health Leadership

Student Board - Mini Grants

The Student Board’s mission is to enhance professional skills and provide leadership opportunities for students of public health through active participation and relationship building. One way the Center for Health Leadership Student Board (CHLSB) does that is via the Leaders In Service Grants.  The Leaders In Service Grants is a unique way to provide funding for student initiated community service activities.

A sample of past projects that have been funded included:

• Condoms for Coachella
• Hepatitis B Awareness Week
• San Rafael Dust Investigation
• Presentation at the 4th International Conference on History of Occupational and Environmental Health

Grants are meant to be an opportunity to enhance and develop leadership skills. A formal grant request and reporting process is required to provide opportunities for students with a real-life opportunity to participate in a grant application process in addition to the actual service project.

Priority will be given to projects that:

• Improve the health of a particular community or communities, or directly impact the field of Public Health
• Demonstrate leadership skills
• Identify a compelling Public Health issue or problem
• Present a well developed case for the proposed solution or action, and explain why the issue or problem proposed represents a good use of CHLSB funds (as opposed to other sources of funding)
• Lay out a clear strategy and plan for how the work will get done – what, why, how, who, when – and demonstrate capacity
• Promote partnerships