Senior Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine supports outstanding researchers from low-and-middle-income countries to establish themselves as leading investigators at an academic institution.
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 projects should be aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health.
Fellowships are offered by welcome trust 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
Contributions to costs of the project that are directly incurred by the overseas institution may also be provided. The salary should normally be based on the pay scales of the employing institution and must be justified by the head of the institution. The salary level should be appropriate for the holder of a competitive grant and allow him/her to focus full-time on research.
This fellowship is subject to competitive rolling scientific review every five years, and renewed awards will be funded on the basis that the Trust and the host institution will each provide 50 per cent of the Fellow’s basic employment costs for the duration of any renewal period.
Eligibility:
Applications are only accepted in the Public Health and Tropical Medicine remit. This covers research on infectious and non-communicable diseases within the fields of public health and tropical medicine that is aimed at understanding and controlling diseases (either human or animal) of relevance to local, national or global health. This includes:
- · 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 of vectors
This can include laboratory based molecular analysis of field or clinical samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using animal models will not normally be considered under this scheme.
The candidate must be a national or 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.
The candidate 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.Due allowance will be given to those whose career has been affected, either by a late start or by interruption, for personal or family reasons.
Deadlines:
The timetable for the next round of the competition is below:
- · Preliminary application deadline: 24 September 2012
- · Main application deadline: 26 November 2012
- · Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: January 2013
- · Shortlisted candidate interviews by Selection Panel: 3-5 April 2013
- Schedule for main applications submitted to 20 July 2012 deadline:
- · Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: September 2012
- · Shortlisted candidate interviews by Selection Panel: 26-28 November 2012
Details of future rounds:
- · Preliminary application deadline: 10 December 2012
- · Main application deadline: 4 March 2013
- · Shortlisting of candidates by Expert Review Group: April 2013
- · Shortlisted candidate interviews by Selection Panel: 9-12 July 2013
Applications are made via the Trust’s eGrants online application system. The host institution will need to be registered on eGrants before can create a new preliminary application form. A list of registered institutions can be found here. If your host institution is not on this list, you will need to contact eGrants Support for further information, and allow sufficient time for your institution to be registered.
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