Using Data to improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health: A Grand Challenges Africa Funding Opportunity 13 March 2019 | Nairobi, Kenya Globally, there is an ongoing burden of 5.4 million deaths annually, that includes neonatal deaths (2.5 million), stillbirths (2.6 million), and maternal deaths (0.3 million). Africa, with only 17% of the world’s population, carries…
Several sponsors of the Malaria GRC stipulated that their contributions support scientists from malaria endemic countries. Please help us infuse this meeting with exciting, unpublished data from students, post-docs, and scientists from endemic areas by sharing this email with your colleagues and encouraging them to submit their abstracts! Follow this link for meeting details and…
The Africa Oxford Initiative has partnered with the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine to offer 8-week summer internships to undergraduate and Masters students from Africa. This is a fully-paid opportunity for students to work in a laboratory environment with an Oxford University Principal Investigator (PI) and their team in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine….
The Newton International Fellowships are funded by the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to ensure that the UK engages with the world’s most promising early career academics. Newton International Fellowships are awarded jointly by three of the UK’s national research academies – the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Academy…
We are pleased to announce the 2019 call for applications to the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program: an opportunity for early career researchers. CIFAR, a Canadian-based global organization, brings together nearly 400 researchers from over 16 countries who together are pursuing answers to some of the most complex challenges facing the world today. The CIFAR…
30 January 2019 | Nairobi, Kenya – The African Academy of Sciences has set up the DELTAS Africa Community and Public Engagement (CPE) Seed Fund, a 2-year scheme to support doctoral and postdoctoral trainees to undertake innovative engagement projects aligned to their research projects. Health research and innovation has long relied on traditional, linear models…