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KIT Fund: Scholarships for healthcare professionals

Support Master’s students to be agents of lasting change, improving health for millions of people.

More than one third of the world’s population still lacks access to basic health care. Every day people die from preventable and curable diseases or a lack of medical help, with fatal consequences.  This is primarily due to a shortage of trained healthcare professionals and inadequate health systems serving the needs of communities and regions.

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Graduates pose on the steps of KIT Amsterdam after their Graduation Ceremony, september 2024

Motivated to change the system

The most motivated to transform and strengthen healthcare quality and access for some of the world’s most vulnerable people are often the doctors, nurses, pharmacists, midwives and other health experts who work with patients on a daily basis. These highly talented professionals know and understand best their local contexts and  are driven to increase their impact by taking their practical experience into management and ministry positions. Here they can influence health policies and decision making, for example to drive more effective national vaccination roll outs and clinical care planning and resources.

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Ripple effect: improving millions of lives

The one year Master in Public Health and Health Equity at KIT enables these experts to make the move into more influential roles and apply their knowledge for greater and longer term impact. This pivotal year helps health experts to be able to improve and save hundreds of thousands more lives across their communities in countries around the world.

Leaders in global healthcare

KIT Institute has trained doctors, nurses and other health professionals across the globe to transform international healthcare for sixty years. The KIT Master of Science is accredited by the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organization (NVAO) and collaborates with the VU University Amsterdam to ensure quality and university standards.

KIT has trained over 5,000 health specialist students through short courses and Master programmes. Do you help more health professionals to be trained?

Studying at KIT helped me to have a critical mind and to think out of the box. I work now for the National Cancer Prevention Centre in Zambia. We have screened close to 200,000 women in the cervical cancer programme… We have also… trained people from eleven other African countries. I could not have succeeded in all that without the training in public health at KIT.
One of our former masters students Sharon Kapambwe Medical doctor from Zambia and Director of the National Cancer Prevention Centre in Zambia

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Donate to help students from low- and middle-income countries study Public and International Health. Your support for one student can mean better health for thousands!

KIT Fund news

  • Six Years KIT Fund: A Farewell Interview with Outgoing Chair Suzette de Boer

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    In a world where access to quality healthcare is still far from guaranteed, Suzette de Boer spent six tireless years strengthening the KIT Fund. As she hands over the position of chair of KIT Fund, she looks back on a period in which both the urgency and the impact of the Fund grew more than […]

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  • Investing in people with support from Dioraphte

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    With support from Dioraphte, five ambitious health professionals can pursue KIT’s master’s programme, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to create structural improvements in healthcare. Public health worker Emmanuel Len Opio received a KIT Fund scholarship in 2024. At the start of his master’s programme, he wrote: “Thank you for recognizing the potential and […]

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  • Partnering up: KIT Fund and TSH Talent Foundation join forces 

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    KIT Fund and the TSH Talent Foundation have partnered to offer the Changemaker Scholarship to talented health professionals from low- and middle-income countries. The joint scholarship enables talented health workers to complete their Master’s programme at KIT to become leaders in global health. What sets the scholarship apart is its holistic support model, combining housing, […]

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Donors

We are grateful for the generous support of private donors, foundations and corporate partners who make it possible for talented health professionals to study a Master’s at KIT Institute.

If you would like to consider naming a scholarship donation please contact one of the team at: kitfund@kit.nl

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KIT MAG

KIT MAG: an annual magazine packed with stories about our activities, at our campus in Amsterdam and with partners worldwide.

Browse the magazine online or take a copy with you when you visit KIT (at the reception).