IMMANA Fellowships: Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions in LMICs Countries

Deadline: 1 February 2017

The Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are pleased to announce the third of four planned rounds of Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Emerging Leaders in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Research “IMMANA Fellowships”, funded with UK aid from the UK government through the Department for International Development (DFID).

Programme Aims

The IMMANA programme will deliver its aims through:

Competitive Research Grants to Develop Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA Grants): A research grants programme directed at accelerating the development of innovative and interdisciplinary metrics and methods filling the key knowledge gaps including theory-driven impact evaluation.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Emerging Leaders in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Research (IMMANA Fellowships): A fellowship programme directed at building a cadre of early career researchers who are using and developing or adapting these new methodological approaches with mentors in ongoing research programmes in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy: A global research network connecting researchers and research groups, to ensure rapid sharing, development and use of the best approaches emerging from their work and from the Grants and Fellowships proposed in this project.

Benefits

Six Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive selection process. Each Fellowship will be provided for a 12-month period and cannot be renewed. Each Fellowship must also involve two mentors. During that period, Fellows will receive the following financial support:

A fixed stipend of £34,000 paid in quarterly installments against satisfactory completion of programme milestones.
A research allowance of £7,500 to cover travel and other fieldwork expenses, also paid as lump sums for achievement of programme milestones.
An honorarium of £1,750 to each of the mentors paid in two installments at mid-term and end of the year, on submission of a satisfactory mentorship report.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible candidates will have completed a doctoral degree (PhD, DPhil, DPH, MD, DVM or similar terminal degree) in any field related to agriculture, nutrition or health research and practice, and are seeking a career in research, education, and engagement at the intersection of two or more of these
Eligible candidates should have no more than 3 years of post-PhD experience prior to their proposed Fellowship start date.
The IMMANA programme aims for equal representation of women and men with a wide range of expertise, and we particularly welcome applications from citizens of LMIC countries.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted online via given website.

Eligible Countries:

Albania, Fiji, Namibia, Algeria, Gabon, Palau, American Samoa, Grenada, Panama, Angola, Iran, Paraguay, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Peru, Belarus, Jamaica, Romania, Belize, Jordan, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Botswana, Lebanon, St. Lucia, Brazil, Libya, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Suriname, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Maldives, Tonga, Costa Rica, Marshall Islands, Tunisia, Cuba, Mauritius, Turkey, Dominica, Mexico, Turkmenistan, Dominican Republic , Mongolia, Tuvalu, Ecuador, Montenegro.

For more information, please visit IMMANA Fellowships.