Deadline: 12 November 2015
Public Health and Tropical Medicine Fellowships is seeking applications from low-and -middle income countries to establish an independent research programme.
Research should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and tropical medicine of local, national and global relevance.
Benefits
- a basic salary for the fellow
- research expenses
- appropriate and justified course fees
- research management and support costs
- inflation and flexible funding allowance
- support to attend scientific meetings
- provision for public engagement costs.
- Overseas allowances for periods of training or collaborative research spent outside the home institution country
Research Topics
- 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant must be from a low- and middle-income country.
- Applicant should be either
- a graduate in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine (e.g. biomedical or social science, veterinary medicine, physics, chemistry or mathematics) with a PhD and three to six years’ postdoctoral experience, or
- a medical graduate with a higher qualification equivalent to membership of the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians (i.e. qualified to enter higher specialist training) or recognised as a specialist within a relevant research area, with three to six years’ research experience.
How to Apply
- The application procedure consists of two phases
- Preliminary application
- Full application
- Applicants can first submit the preliminary application online and the selected applicants will be invited to submit the full applications.
For more information, please visit Public Health and Tropical Medicine Fellowships.
