Deadline: 12 November 2015
The Wellcome Trust is seeking applications for training fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. This scheme provides researchers from low- and middle-income countries – who are at an early stage in the establishment of their research careers – with opportunities for research experience and high-quality research training in public health and tropical medicine.
Fellowship includes
- a basic salary for the fellow
- research expenses (e.g. consumables, equipment, collaborative travel, research assistance, technical support, fieldwork and data collection)
- course fees where appropriate and justified
- research management and support costs
- inflation and Flexible Funding Allowance
- support to attend scientific meetings
- provision for public engagement costs.
Public health and tropical medicine cover a wide range of health problems, including communicable and non-communicable diseases. 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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicant must be a national of a low- and middle-income country and 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 no more than three 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) and some initial research experience.
- Training Fellowships in Public Health and Tropical Medicine are not available to researchers in India.
To submit a preliminary application to this deadline, candidate need to complete application through online form.
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