Overview 

The Opportunity Fund P3 Fellowship is a competitively awarded three-year program for advanced doctoral students at P3-US universities, including Georgia State University, Howard University, and The University of Texas at San Antonio. Doctoral students at these universities whose program and research align with the AIR Opportunity Fund programmatic areas—education, workforce, public safety, and community health and well-being in the U.S. and globally—are encouraged to apply. This includes students studying topics in the behavioral and social sciences, public health, economics, public policy, and other related fields.

This three-year program for doctoral students at P3-US institutions seeks to: 

• Strengthen and sustain research and technical assistance work conducted by emerging scholars in the behavioral and social sciences

• Reduce barriers to dissertation completion

• Provide a pathway to employment at AIR

The P3 Fellowship consists of two phases. Phase 1 is a two-year pre-doctoral program for advanced doctoral students who expect to complete their dissertations within two years. Following the completion of their dissertation defense and doctoral degree, P3 Fellows will enter into Phase 2, a one-year paid post-doctoral position at AIR.

Eligibility Criteria

To eligible for the P3 Fellowship, applicants must:

• Be enrolled full- or part-time in a doctoral program at a US-based P3 institution.

• Expect to complete the dissertation within 2 years.

• Demonstrate commitment to work on research topics that are related to AIR Opportunity Fund program areas in either education, workforce, public safety, or community health and well-being, in the U.S. and globally.