Introduction
to the scholarship
The applications are invited for the 2014/15
UJMT Fogarty global health fellowship. The fellowship program offers around 11
months of mentored clinical research training for pre and postdoctoral
candidates. The program provides a new opportunity in global health research
training for selected junior faculty, fellows and the scholars.
The US citizens and trainees from LMIC who
are currently involved in research at one of the international training sites affiliated
with one of the four consortium partners are eligible to the fellowship.
The fellowship is awarded in the subjects
such as endocrinology, epidemiology, environmental sciences and engineering, Chinese
traditional medicine, dengue, maternal child health, mental health, nutrition,
oncology, paediatrics, primary health care, reproductive health, surgery and
trauma/burn, cardiovascular disease, childhood asthma, hepatitis, hypertension,
kidney disease, stroke, tuberculosis, health economics, health and human
rights, infectious disease modelling, monitoring and evaluation, smoking cessation,
and vaccination rollout strategy (rotavirus, HPV).
Based on the 20 years of research and
training collaboration, this research training consortium brings together 19
primary research training sites of Africa, Asia and South America. The deadline of the scholarship falls in
December.
Scholarship
provider
The scholarship is provided by the Fogarty
international centre and other NIH institutes, centres and offices such as the
national cancer institute, and the office of research in women’s health. The
scholarships can b taken at USA.
Scholarship
duration
The fellowships are offered for a period of
eleven months.
Scholarship
coverage
The fellowship trainees will be provided
with a monthly stipend dependent on the experience, research funding, relocation
funds and the health and emergency evacuation insurance. The LMIC trainees will
receive stipend support, conference travel funds and research funds.
The trainees are expected to effectively
conduct the high quality, ethical research documenting their research findings
with at least one publishable and peer-review paper.
Eligibility
criteria
The candidate has to satisfy the following
eligibility criteria.
1.
The candidate should be a US
citizen or non-citizen national or permanent resident.
2.
The MD’s will have completed
residency prior to the departure date for the training site.
3.
Postdoctoral trainees from LMIC
who are involved in research at one of the international training sites
affiliated with one of the four consortiums.
4.
The candidates who have or will
have the in-country equivalent to an MD or PhD level of education prior to the
start of the fellowship.
Application
process
The mode of application is online.
Selection
The applicants will be judged primarily on
the following criteria. Training record to date, quality of the research
project, previous publication and qualifications, institutional support in
terms of supplemental funding, and potential faculty appointment, and the
likelihood of a successful research career, and future academic plans.