The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Loan Repayment has announced that they will be accepting applications for a student loan repayment program from September 1-November 17. The repayment program covers the areas of clinical research, pediatric research, health disparities research, contraception and infertility research, or clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In order to qualify for the program, applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents, possess a doctoral-level degree (excluding contraception and infertility research LRP), and have educational loan debt equal to or exceeding 20 percent of his/her annual institutional base salary.
Applicants must also devote a minimum of 20 hours per week within one of the following program areas: clinical research, pediatric research, health disparities research, contraception and infertility research, or clinical research for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
