The Senior Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine is now available for applicants who resides in a low- and middle-income country and graduate in the public health or tropical medicine. The fellowship will cover covers basic salary, research expenses, training costs, inflation allowance and support to attend scientific meetings and overseas allowances for the duration of the fellowship is up to five years
Description
This scheme supports outstanding researchers from low- and middle-income countries to establish themselves as leading investigators at an academic institution in a low- and middle-income country location.
This fellowship is the most senior of a series of career awards aimed at building sustainable capacity in areas of research that have the potential for increasing health benefits for people and their livestock in low- and middle-income countries.
Research should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and diseases of local, national and global relevance. Topics include:
Benefits:
Fellowships are for up to five years in the first instance and provide support that includes:
Eligibility
Application Procedure
Awards will be made following a rigorous review process and interview. The application process may take up to four months to complete, from receipt of the main application, and consists of the following stages:
Please visit the link below to learn further the application process of the fellowship
Submission Deadline
The deadline for applications is 22 November 2013, 28 February 2014.
Next preliminary application deadline: 20 September 2013
Main application deadline: 22 November 2013
Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: January 2014
Shortlisted candidate interviews with Interview Panel: 1-3 April 2014
Next preliminary application deadline: 13 December 2013
Main application deadline: 28 February 2014
Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: April-May 2014
Shortlisted candidate interviews with Interview Panel: 8-10 July 2014
Description
This scheme supports outstanding researchers from low- and middle-income countries to establish themselves as leading investigators at an academic institution in a low- and middle-income country location.
This fellowship is the most senior of a series of career awards aimed at building sustainable capacity in areas of research that have the potential for increasing health benefits for people and their livestock in low- and middle-income countries.
Research should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and diseases of local, national and global relevance. Topics include:
- demographic, social science and health economic studies
- epidemiological, field and community based studies
- health care systems and policy research
- measurement of infectious and chronic disease burden
- population studies
- clinical trials and case control studies
- studies of disease mechanisms in the natural host
- determinants of disease susceptibility and resistance
- immunity or resistance in natural hosts or vectors.
Benefits:
Fellowships are for up to five years in the first instance and provide support that includes:
- a basic salary
- research expenses (e.g. consumables, equipment, collaborative travel, research assistance, technical support, fieldwork and data collection)
- training costs where appropriate and justified
- an inflation allowance and support to attend scientific meetings.
Eligibility
- You must be a national or a legal resident of a low- and middle-income country, and be either a: graduate in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine (for example; biomedical or social science, veterinary medicine, physics, chemistry or mathematics) with a PhD and at least five years’ postdoctoral experience, or medical graduate with a higher qualification equivalent to membership of the UK Royal College of Physicians (i.e. qualified to enter higher specialist training), or be recognized as a specialist within a relevant research area, and have at least five years’ research experience.
- Applicants who do not have a PhD but who are educated to first degree or Master’s level and have substantial research experience, as evidenced by their publication record, may be considered.
- You should have a substantial record of publications in your chosen area of research in leading international journals.
- Applications are particularly encouraged from outstanding low- and middle-income country researchers working overseas who wish to return to their home country.
Application Procedure
Awards will be made following a rigorous review process and interview. The application process may take up to four months to complete, from receipt of the main application, and consists of the following stages:
- Preliminary application - assessment of eligibility and advice on competitiveness
- Invited main application - review by the relevant Expert Review Group and shortlisted for interview
- Interview - by Interview Panel, with additional peer review from relevant scientific experts.
Please visit the link below to learn further the application process of the fellowship
Submission Deadline
The deadline for applications is 22 November 2013, 28 February 2014.
Next preliminary application deadline: 20 September 2013
Main application deadline: 22 November 2013
Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: January 2014
Shortlisted candidate interviews with Interview Panel: 1-3 April 2014
Next preliminary application deadline: 13 December 2013
Main application deadline: 28 February 2014
Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: April-May 2014
Shortlisted candidate interviews with Interview Panel: 8-10 July 2014
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