The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, a Fulbright exchange, enhances leadership among international professionals who collaborate to address local and global challenges and foster change for the collective good. Through academic study and professional development with U.S. counterparts, this growing global network shares best practices and builds expertise in fields of critical importance to advance societal and institutional capacity, promote human rights and freedoms, ensure sustainable environments, and develop thriving communities.

This ten-month Fellowship program is offered to mid-career professionals who have a proven track record of leadership, a public service commitment, and the capacity to take full advantage of a self-defined program of independent non-degree study at a leading U.S. university. The Humphrey Fellowship Program provides current and future international leaders with professional collaboration, a personalized academic experience, and leadership development, while building lasting, productive ties in critical fields between Americans and their professional counterparts overseas.

Fields of Study

• Human and Institutional Capacity
  • Economic Policy and Finance
    • Humphrey Fellows work in multi-disciplinary fields that focus on developing solutions to economic challenges in their communities and countries, including industrial issues, job creation, and other areas. They also serve in leadership roles in the field of finance and banking, such as managing financial institutions, developing public-private partnerships, and transnational finance.
  • Public Policy Analysis and Public Administration
    • Humphrey Fellows serve in a range of capacities, such as health policymakers, physicians, clinicians with management responsibilities, health educators, and practitioners with policy­ making responsibilities, that promote public health education and effective public health policies and management in their communities and countries.
  • Technology Policy and Management
    • Humphrey Fellows serve as technology educators, chief information officers, policy advisors, engineers, and urban planners. They formulate technology policy and manage scientific and technological change at local, regional, and national levels.
• Sustainable Lands
  • Agricultural and Rural Development
    • Humphrey Fellows develop best practices and share knowledge in the field of agriculture and food system development to improve agricultural and rural development in their countries, fostering more resilient global food systems.
  • Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
    • Humphrey Fellows work as policy makers and practitioners across multiple disciplines to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events and manage natural and environmental resources effectively.
  • Urban and Regional Planning
    • Humphrey Fellows work as architects, engineers, planners, urban designers, urban economists and sociologists, and historic preservation specialists in fields such as land use and urban finance management, to advance their country’s urban and regional planning development.
• Thriving Communities
  • Public Health Policy and Management
    • Humphrey Fellows serve in a range of capacities, such as health policymakers, physicians, clinicians with management responsibilities, health educators, and practitioners with policy-making responsibilities, that promote public health education and effective public health policies and management in their communities and countries.
  • Substance Abuse Education and Policy
    • Humphrey Fellows work in specialized areas such as community-based treatment and prevention programs, hospitals, and local or national policy agencies, that focus on problems of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use as well as broader areas of public health that relate to substance abuse, such as HIV/AIDS, mental health, medicine, psychology, social work, and counseling.
  • Educational Administration, Planning and Policy
    • Humphrey Fellows work in areas including primary and secondary education curriculum development, program design, adult learning, and teacher training, that contribute to education planning, policy development, and reform implementation and will leverage the U.S. education system. Some Humphrey Fellows also may serve as senior educators in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language.
• Rights and Freedoms
  • Communications/Journalism
    • Humphrey Fellows work in media and communications fields, such as investigative journalism, public broadcasting, and public relations, to foster and facilitate press freedom and transparent media in their countries.
  • Law and Human Rights
    • Humphrey Fellows work as attorneys, judges, and in the non-governmental sector to advance the rule of law and protect individual freedoms.

Costs Covered

• The Humphrey Fellowship provides international travel, tuition and university fees, English language training, if needed, accident/sickness coverage, monthly maintenance allowance and funding for books and professional activities. The Humphrey Program does not provide financial support for accompanying dependents.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for a Humphrey Fellowship Program, applicants must have:
  • An undergraduate (first university or Bachelor’s) degree
  • A minimum of five years of full-time professional experience
  • Limited or no prior experience in the United States
  • Demonstrated leadership qualities
  • A record of public service in the community
  • Demonstrated English language ability

For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in El Salvador.