TDR Postgraduate Scholarship in Implementation Research
Academic Year 2019/2020
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2019
The Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for the award of scholarships for one-year Masters studies in Public Health for the 2019/2020 academic year. The scholarship is supported by TDR (the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, which is co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, and WHO). The vision of TDR is that the health and wellbeing of people burdened by infectious diseases of poverty is improved through research and training.
COVERAGE
The scheme provides scholarships for fulltime studies and is focused on courses relevant to a career in implementation research. 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 graduate training capacity and boost the number of researchers in low and middle-income countries. The scholarship recipients will conduct their thesis projects on implementation research on infectious diseases of poverty, including neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), malaria and tuberculosis, in Ghana. Recipients will be enrolled as postgraduate students.
Further information on implementation research is available on the WHO TDR website at the following link: www.who.int/tdr/publications/topics/ir-toolkit/en/
STUDY AREAS
Ten (10) Master’s scholarships will be offered under the programme for the 2019/2020 academic year in the following areas:
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should
SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGE
The scholarship is tenable at the University of Ghana, School of Public Health, and covers:
HOW TO APPLY
Applications for the TDR international postgraduate scholarship must be submitted online at: https://admission.ug.edu.gh/tdr.
Applicants must simultaneously submit applications for admission into the relevant programme at University of Ghana: http://admission.ug.edu.gh/freshstudents/index.php/graduate-admissions/apply-now.html
Please take note that this is a requirement and the deadline for UG admission is 31 May 2019.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
The deadline for submission of scholarship applications is TUESDAY, 30 APRIL 2019.
SELECTION
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for an interview. Applicants will have seven (7) calendar days to confirm acceptance after notification of offer. After this date, it will be assumed that the student is unable to take up the scholarship. University of Ghana reserves the right to refuse or end attribution of the scholarship if any information provided in support of the application is false.
For more information on the scheme at the University of Ghana, please contact:
E-mail: Pre and Post Award Services @ orid-ppa@ug.edu.gh
or
Mrs Abena Engmann @ aengmann@ug.edu.gh