Deadline: 11-Jan-23
Global Health Corps (GHC) welcomes young professionals from Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to apply for paid 13 month fellowships with health organizations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.
During their fellowship year, fellows make significant contributions to their placement organizations and the communities they serve. They also engage in robust leadership training and integrate into GHC’s global network.
The fellowship starts with one week of inspiring sessions with thought leaders, bonding with your cohort, and reflections on your role as a next gen global health leader. Training, coaching, and mentorship continue year-round!
Fellowship information
- Participate in bespoke training: The fellowship starts with one week of inspiring sessions with thought leaders, bonding with your cohort, and reflections on your role as a next gen global health leader. Training, coaching, and mentorship continue year-round!
- Learn as you go: You will adapt and innovate as you learn the needs of your placement organization, and work to add value and advance health equity. There will be highs and lows, and new learning’s every day.
- Become part of a supportive, dynamic global community: GHC fellows and alumni span borders and boundaries of all kinds, but form a tight knit network united in the belief that health is a human right. Fellows are placed in pairs so there is always someone to turn to.
- Build your resilience: Transforming health systems is complex, difficult, and long-term work and you have to bring your whole self. So cultivating resilience, self-care, and empathy as an emerging leader is a core component of our curriculum.
How long is the time commitment for Global Health Corps fellows?
The GHC fellowship is a 13 month commitment, from early July 2023 through the end of July 2024. Exact dates will be shared on the application.
Benefits
GHC fellows receive a living grant. The scholarship takes into consideration the local economic indicators and is set at a level appropriate for a professional trainee for that location.
The living grant may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization. Grant amounts are post-tax in your placement country. For fellows with an international home base, please check your home country’s tax regulation as it may require you to report on total funds received during the fellowship.
The monthly grant in each country is:
In addition to the intensive leadership development and professional growth that the fellowship offers, the Global Health Corps fellowship includes:
- Living grant;
- professional development funds;
- completion award;
- Housing;
- health insurance;
- Travel costs covered to and from GHC training and retreats;
- Visa/work permit.
GHC arranges several logistical details on fellows’ behalf with the expectation that fellows will take ownership of their overall experience.
Ideal Applicants
They are looking for a diverse group of high-potential leaders from every sector and professional background who bring the skills necessary to address critical health systems gaps and who embody our key leadership practices:
- Collaborative: You value inclusion and collaboration across sectors, cultures, and borders of all kinds. You are ready to listen to and embrace others’ perspectives, even when they are different from your own;
- Committed to learning: You are willing to push yourself outside your comfort zone often (while practicing self-care). You are ready to approach a personally transformative year with integrity, humility, and self-reflection;
- Inspiring and mobilizing: You are ready to strengthen and use your voice — the most powerful tool for change that you have — in order to engage others, create space for critical conversation, and effect meaningful social change in global health;
- Committed to social justice: You are passionate about social justice in health and have both the patience and the motivation to engage in the hard, complex work of building just health systems;
- Adaptive and innovative: You are excited by a design-thinking approach to building a better world, creatively embracing problems and ready to embrace failure as learning;
- Results-driven: You bring your best self and are motivated to do the day-to-day work needed to bring about positive change in the global health equity movement.
Eligibility Criteria
By the start of the fellowship, fellows must:
- Be 30 years of age or younger.
- Hold a bachelor’s or undergraduate university degree.
- Be proficient in English.
- Be a citizen or legal permanent resident of Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, or Zimbabwe.
While GHC places young professionals from these 13 countries, there are many ways for all people to be health equity champions. Please check out open positions on their staff team or check out their partner organizations for other opportunities to volunteer or work in global health.
For more information, visit Africa Fellowship Program .