The Wellcome Trust
is funding senior fellowships in public health and tropical medicine. Applicant
must be a resident of a low- and middle-income country and graduate in the
public health or tropical medicine. The duration of the fellowship is up to
five years which covers basic salary, research expenses, training costs,
inflation allowance and support to attend scientific meetings and overseas
allowances.
Study
Subject (s):
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.
Course Level:
This fellowship is awarded for pursuing a research program at an academic
institution in a low- and middle-income country location.
Scholarship
Provider: Wellcome Trust
Scholarship can
be taken at: low- and middle-income country
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.
Scholarship
Open for Students of Following Countries: National or legal resident of a low- and
middle-income country are eligible for this research fellowship.
Scholarship
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 of disease mechanisms in the natural host determinants of disease
susceptibility and resistance immunity or resistance in natural hosts or
vectors.
Duration of
award (s):
Fellowships are for up to five years.
What does it
cover?
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. 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. If the fellow is already in receipt of a
salary from the host institution, the host institution may use the salary to
pay for a replacement member of staff while we provide the fellow’s salary for
the duration of the fellowship. It is not expected that the fellow will hold a
salary in addition to the one provided by the Trust. Overseas allowances will
be provided for periods of training or collaborative research spent outside the
home institution country, where
appropriate. Research-dedicated costs (excluding salary costs) should not
exceed £100 000 per annum.
Selection
Criteria:
Reviewers typically assess: the caliber of the candidate the quality and
importance of the research question(s) the approach to solving these questions
the suitability of the research environment. Successful applicants will have a
substantial record of publications in their chosen area of research in leading
international journals.
Notification: Shortlisting of candidates
by Expert Review Group: January 2014. Interviews of the shortlisted candidate
will be taken by the Interview
Panel: 1-3 April 2014. Short listing of candidates from Expert Review Group:
April-May 2014. Shortlisted candidate interviews with Interview Panel: 8-10
July 2014.
How to Apply: The mode of applying is
online.
Scholarship
Application 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
