The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to U.S. citizens and permanent residents to support research in the collection of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Spanning eleven centuries, the NLM collection encompasses a variety of digital and physical formats and originates from nearly every part of the globe. The collection includes the Michael E. DeBakey papers—representing the diverse areas in which Dr. DeBakey made a lasting impact, such as surgery, medical education, and health care policy—along with the papers of many other luminaries in science and medicine.
Supported research may be conducted onsite at the NLM by studying the collection in the NLM Reading Room, or remotely using NLM digital resources, including not only its digitized and born-digital collections but also its datasets. Projects embracing methods and tools of the digital humanities are welcome. Applicants are expected to complete their work according to their proposal and within their fellowship year.
Support for research in collections that are intellectually related to those of the NLM will be considered, but the overall proposed research must be primarily rooted in the NLM collection.
Fellowship Website:
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/get-involved/debakey-fellowship.html