Call for applications

TDR Postgraduate Scholarship in Implementation Research Academic Year 2023
Deadline for applications: 9 September 2022
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for a place in a full-time postgraduate programme with a focus on implementation research for the 2022–2023 academic year.

Funding for these full scholarships is from TDR. Only applicants from low- and middle-income countries of the WHO African Region are eligible to apply.

The training will be focused on courses relevant to a career in implementation research on infectious of poverty, including neglected tropical diseases, malaria, TB/HIV and COVID-19. Implementation research is a growing field that supports the identification of health system bottlenecks and approaches to address them, and is particularly useful in low- and middle- income countries where many health interventions do not reach those who need them the most. The goal of this scheme is to enhance postgraduate training capacity and boost the number of researchers in low- and middle-income countries…more