Deadline: 31 March, 2025
Applications are now open for the 2025 Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) Epidemiology Track Fellowship Programme.
This program targets qualified applicants from African Union Member states drawn from public health discipline, with an interest in practicing applied Epidemiology.
Benefits
Financing Africa CDC will provide all learning and development materials and meet all costs associated with the fellowship, including travel-related costs (e.g., airfare, lodging, incidentals), stipends, hardware, and insurance. Fellows will be supported to ensure that they have the relevant software and sufficient Internet connectivity for online learning.
Eligibility
- Be citizens of an African Union Member State
- Be a youth as defined by the African Union, i.e., an individual under the age of 35
- Have been employed at the time of application in an African country with permission from a government institution to attend the two-year training, with the right to return post-training
- Have a graduate degree from an accredited school of human medicine, veterinary medicine, or other doctoral-level training in nursing, environmental sciences, or other public health field
- Possess an MPH or equivalent degree with coursework in epidemiology or quantitative research methods
- Have at least three years of recent full-time public health postgraduate experience in an African country
- Have a functional knowledge of any of the African Union working languages and ability to read and write technical medical and epidemiological texts
To apply and for more information, click here.
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