Deadline: 2 February 2017
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is currently seeking applications for its EDCTP-TDR Clinical Research and Development fellowships providing benefits to early-to-mid-career scientists and clinical staff in low- and middle-income countries to learn how to conduct clinical trials. Selected applicants are placed in pharmaceutical companies or product development partnerships for 6-15 months.
Researchers from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) who are involved in clinical research projects have limited opportunities to acquire experience and develop skills for conducting clinical trials outside of an academic or public sector setting. As a result, there are fewer than the required researchers and clinical staff from LMICs assuming leadership roles in clinical research for Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs).
EDCTP and TDR are jointly implementing this fellowship scheme to support researchers to obtain these essential skills, and ensure synergies between researchers and clinical staff, pharmaceutical companies, product development partnerships (PDPs) and research affiliated institutions. This partnership is aimed at increasing the number of individuals trained resulting in an increased impact on clinical research and development of additional capacity in LMICs.
TDR will fund fellows employed by a research institution in any LMIC to be placed in pharmaceutical companies, PDPs and research affiliated institutions either in or outside Europe to train and develop new research skills on infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, Ebola and NIDs EDCTP will fund fellows employed by a sub-Saharan African legal entity to be placed in European-based pharmaceutical companies to train and develop new research skills of relevance to Poverty Related Diseases (PRDs).
Eligibility Criteria
For EDCTP and TDR
At the deadline for the submission of proposals, the fellow should:
- be a post-graduate (MSc or PhD) or medical graduate with clinical and/or research experience in infectious diseases;
- have obtained their first degree within 15 years of submission of the application.
For EDCTP
- The applicant must be the legal entity registered in a sub-Saharan African country employing the fellow.
- The fellow must be a researcher or clinical staff member employed for the last 12 months in an institution with a registered legal entity in sub-Saharan Africa.
For TDR
- The fellow must be a national or citizen of, and resident in, a LMIC and be a researcher or clinical staff member employed for the last 12 months in an institution and conducting clinical research activities on NIDs.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Countries
Armenia, Indonesia, Samoa, Bangladesh, Kenya, São Tomé and Principe, Bhutan, Kiribati, Senegal, Bolivia, Kosovo, Solomon Islands, Cape Verde, Kyrgyz Republic, Sri Lanka, Cameroon, Lao PDR, Sudan, Congo, Rep., Lesotho, Swaziland, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syrian, Djibouti, Micronesia, Tajikistan, Egypt, Moldova, Timor-Leste, El Salvador, Morocco, Ukraine, Georgia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Ghana, Nicaragua, Vanuatu, Guatemala, Nigeria, Vietnam, Guyana, Pakistan, West Bank and Gaza, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Yemen, India, Philippines, Zambia
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.