ASHDS Foundation

Opening doors to health data science

Since 2017, the Foundation has awarded more than $3.8 million in scholarships, travel grants, and research funding to students and early-career professionals.

Pathways 2028 Campaign

$1.24M raised

of $2M goal · 62%

Pathways 2028 will fund 500 students from first-generation and underrepresented backgrounds by the Society's 15th anniversary.

What we fund

Programs

Emerging Scholars Scholarship

$5,000 · Deadline February 15, 2027

Twenty annual awards for undergraduates who have declared a major in data science, statistics, informatics, or a health field.

Symposium Travel Grants

Up to $1,500 · Deadline June 30, 2027

Covers registration, travel, and lodging for students and early-career professionals presenting at the Annual Symposium.

Health Equity Research Seed Grants

$25,000 · Deadline April 1, 2027

One-year seed funding for projects that measure or reduce algorithmic bias in community health settings.

Community Health Center Data Fellows

$60,000 stipend · Deadline Rolling

Places early-career analysts inside federally qualified health centers for a paid 12-month fellowship.

Impact

Meet recent recipients

Aaliyah is building a dashboard that flags missed diabetic eye exams across three rural Georgia clinics.
Aaliyah BrooksMorehouse School of Medicine · Emerging Scholars, 2026
Diego presented his work on Spanish-language clinical notes at the Chicago Symposium, his first professional conference.
Diego RamírezUniversity of Texas at El Paso · Travel Grant, 2025
Priya's team audited a sepsis alert across five hospitals and published the fix in JHDS.
Dr. Priya NatarajanCascadia University · Health Equity Seed Grant, 2025