Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston Galveston

The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston-Galveston (ASFHG) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that offers graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to design and implement a year-long mentored community project that addresses an unmet health need for an underserved population in our area. Students are paired with mentors, field experts, and community sites to enhance and extend the services of existing community organizations that serve vulnerable populations, with the goal of creating immediate and lasting impact in the Houston-Galveston area.

The Fellowship uses a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to foster the skills and development of tomorrow’s healthcare leaders. Fellows are selected via our partnerships with the University of Texas Health System, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Houston and the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and to date, have contributed over 55,000 service hours. During the over fifteen years since the Fellowship began, Fellows have completed projects in various areas, including support for the unhoused, oral health, nutrition, refugee health, mental health awareness, mobile health clinics, family and teen support groups, healthcare education, and more.