Find below a list of excellent funding and career development opportunities.
| Title | Description | Deadline | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Africa - India Mobility Fund | The Africa-India Mobility Fund (AIMF) is a two-year programme designed to provide researchers from Africa and India with opportunities for short visits in either direction to explore opportunities for building and strengthening scientific collaboration. | Applications Considered Monthly |  |
| Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowships 2021 | Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowships are for talented African early career researchers who have the potential to become leaders in their field. | 27 May 2020 |  |
| African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) | The Africa Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI) provides fellowships to African researchers to spend two years at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for professional training and to conduct research in priority areas. | 01/12/2019 |  |
| Career Development Fellowships | The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to support early to mid-career researchers (“fellows”) by providing them an opportunity to train and develop their clinical research skills. | 27/11/2019 |  |
| EDCTP-AREF Preparatory Fellowships | The AREF/EDCTP Preparatory Fellowship targets outstanding early-career researchers residing in or wishing to relocate to sub-Saharan Africa, who demonstrate independent scientific thinking and have potential to deliver locally relevant research with measurable impact and within the scope of the EDCTP2 programme. | 27/11/2019 |  |
| South African Field Epidemiology Training Programme | The SAFETP programme is a two-year, full-time training, from which residents graduate with either a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Pretoria OR a Masters in Epidemiology (MSc) in Field Epidemiology from the University of the Witwatersrand. | 31/07/2019 |  |
| Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowships | Senior Research Fellowships support independent researchers who want to tackle the most important questions in science and who are leaders in their field. | 25/07/2019 |  |
| AAS Affiliates Programme 2019 | The AAS Affiliates Programme seeks early and mid-career career scientist who demonstrate excellence in their development and application of science in Africa. | 15/07/2019 |  |
| TDR Global/ SESH Crowdfunding for Infectious Diseases Research | TDR Global is partnering with SESH to build capacity for crowdfunding among a group of low- and middle-income country researchers focused on infectious diseases. | 30/06/2019 |  |
| East African Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene | The East African DTM&H is a 3-month full-time course in evidenced-based medicine and international health. It is designed for postgraduate doctors planning a career in clinical research and practice in Africa. | 31/05/2019 |  |
| FLAIR Fellowships | Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowships are for talented African early career researchers who have the potential to become leaders in their field. These fellowships provide the opportunity to build an independent research career in a sub-Saharan African institution and to undertake cutting-edge scientific research that will address global challenges facing developing countries. | 15/05/2019 |  |
| Wellcome Trust Masters Degree Scholarship | This scheme offers nationals of low- and middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at Master’s degree level. The scheme aims to support research that will improve public health and tropical medicine at a local, national and global level. | 16/04/2019 | |
| RSHTM 2019 Small Grants Round | The RSHTM Small Grants Programme enables early career researchers and global health professionals in the field of tropical medicine or global health to undertake clinical or scientific research or fieldwork, as stand-alone projects or distinct elements within a larger project. | 15/04/2019 |  |
| MRC Skills Development Fellowship Scheme | MRC Skills Development Fellowships are personal three-year capacity building training awards for talented researchers to support key transition points in their careers. They are suitable for very early career researchers to explore, consolidate and further develop their skills in a priority area in which they are already active or in which they are seeking training. | 01/04/2019 |  |
| ISID Research Grants | ISID grants support the professional development of young investigators who live and work in low or lower-middle income countries working in the field of human infectious diseases by funding pilot research projects to be carried out over the course of a year at the applicant’s institution. | 01/04/2019 |  |
| TDR Clinical Research & Development Fellowships | The TDR CRDF programme offers targeted training in research and development in host training organizations to develop highly skilled local personnel from disease endemic LMICs, to enhance competencies in clinical trials for drugs, vaccines and diagnostics on a broad range of poverty related infectious diseases and Neglected Infectious Diseases (NIDs). | 07/03/2019 | |
| MRC/ DFID African Research Leader Scheme | The MRC/DFID jointly funded scheme aims to strengthen research leadership across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by attracting and retaining exceptionally talented individuals who will lead high-quality programmes of research on key global health issues pertinent to SSA. | 01/02/2019 | |
| AREF/ EDCTP Preparatory Fellowships | The AREF/EDCTP Preparatory Fellowship targets outstanding early-career researchers residing in or wishing to relocate to sub-Saharan Africa who demonstrate independent scientific thinking and have potential to deliver locally relevant research with measurable impact and within the scope of the EDCTP2 programme. | 01/02/2019 | |
| Masters (MSc) Funding & Scholarships | New funding is now available to study a Master's degree. | 01/2019 | |
| Research Degree Funding & Scholarships | New funding is now available to study a PhD programme. | 01/2019 | |
| CIPHER Programme | The CIPHER Grant Programme directly supports the development of early-stage investigators to address research gaps in paediatric and adolescent HIV in resource-limited settings. | 2018/2019 round closed |  |
| Research Training Fellowships For Developing Country Scientists 2018 | The 'Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS)' program is to provide opportunity to young researchers of the developing countries for their capacity building in science and technology through their affiliation with premier academic and research institutions in India to carry out short-term research work | 30/11/2018 |  |
| JoF Travel Awards 2019 | Applications are now open for a Travel Award for Postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D students, to attend a mycological conference in 2019. The individual must be presenting an abstract (poster) or oral presentation at a conference related to mycology research. | 30/11/2018 |  |
| International Training Fellowships | This scheme offers nationals of low-and-middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at postgraduate or postdoctoral level. | 22/11/2018 | |
| PanACEA Postrgraduate Studentships | PanACEA is pleased to announce the opening of their Postgraduate programme, which will offer candidates a unique opportunity to support PanACEA objectives and obtain a research degree. The research programmes will be sponsored by expertise core and other affiliated resources. | 19/09/2018 |  |
| International Master's Fellowship | This scheme offers nationals of low-and-middle-income countries the opportunity to receive training at Master's degree level. | 31/08/2018 | |
| African Career Accelerator Awards | The Crick African Network's African Career Accelerator (CAN ACA) awards will provide Fellowship support for African Post-Doctoral researchers aiming to make the transition to becoming an independent researcher and launching their own research group. | 01/07/2018 |  |
| FLAIR Fellowships | Future Leaders - African Independent Researchers (FLAIR) fellowships offers talented African early career researchers who have the potential to become leaders in their field, the opportunity to develop an independent research career in a sub-Saharan African institution. | 20/06/2018 | |
| African Public Health Leaders Fellowship | The African Public Health Leaders Fellowship will develop the skills in leadership, policy analysis & formulation, of successful applicants who will benefit from the networking and mentoring opportunities in London, Geneva and their respective countries. | 20/06/2018 |  |
