AfricaCDC Africa Epidemic Service Fellowship 2025 for African Union member states

AfricaCDC Africa Epidemic Service Fellowship 2025 for African Union member states. Apply below.

When is Application Deadline:

31st March 2025

Tell Me About Africa Epidemic Service Fellowship:

Africa CDC is mandated through Article 3 of its governing statute to “support Member States in capacity building in public health through medium and long-term field epidemiologic and laboratory training programmes”. To fulfil this mandate, Africa CDC convened a Task Force for Workforce Development in 2018, which consisted of representatives of Member States, public health organizations, academia, and global health agencies. The Task Force developed a Framework for Workforce Development which describes specific steps for the development of public health workforce in three professional areas: field epidemiology, laboratory leadership and public health informatics.

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In this regard, Africa CDC has developed a continental African Epidemic Service (AES), an elite workforce hosted and directed by the African Union. The African Epidemic Service has three tracks namely, Epidemiology, Laboratory Leadership and Public health informatics. The African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology track is a two-year competency based applied epidemiology training program that aims to strengthen the disease prevention and response capacity of African Union member states.

This program targets qualified applicants from Africa Union Member states drawn from public health discipline, with an interest in practicing applied Epidemiology. AES Fellows will be selected from a wide variety of disciplines including Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, Environmental Health, Occupational Health as well as other associated disciplines under public health. Successful applicants are leaders who aspire to master applied epidemiology and are willing to accept assignments in a wide range of public health topics across the 55 African Union Member States.

The first cohort of 10 distinguished fellows have been on boarded as part of the AES – Epidemiology track . Following the completion of their didactic trainings, the inaugural fellows have been deployed to their respective host sites. As per the Academic Calendar of the program the call for application of the second cohort of the African Epidemic Service – Epidemiology track is now open.

Type:

Fellowship

Who can Apply?

Applicants for the Fellowship must:

1. be citizens of an African Union Member State;
2. Be a youth as defined by the African Union, i.e., an individual under the age of 35.
3. have been employed at the time of application in an African country with permission from a government institution to attend the two years training, with right to return post training;
4. have a graduate degree from an accredited school of human medicine, veterinary medicine, or other doctoral-level training in nursing, environmental sciences, or other public health field;
5. possess an MPH or equivalent degree with coursework in epidemiology or quantitative research methods; and
6. have at least three years of recent full-time public health post graduate experience in an African country;
7. Have a functional knowledge of the any of the African Union working languages and ability to read and write technical medical and epidemiological texts.

How Are Applicants Selected?

Selection to the Fellowship will be by an independent committee comprising of experts from the African Union Commission, Africa CDC, and their global partners. The selection process will emphasize an equal opportunity approach to secure the representation of women and underrepresented groups.

Which Countries are Eligible?

African Union Member States.

How Many Awards?

Not specified

What is the Benefit of Award?

The fellowship include a two year training in applied epidemiology, with three months in class training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and 21 months of applied training on a site hosted by an African Union Member State.
The didactic training will be delivered in all African Union languages, while host site activities will be done in the language of the Member State.

Successful applicants will participate in experiential core learning of activities that include, but not limited to: data analysis, surveillance system evaluation, and outbreak investigation. The AESEpidemiology fellow will have the support of an expert supervisor. Fellows will be also matched with experienced public health mentors who will provide support throughout the fellowship programme.

Financing
Africa CDC will provide all learning and development materials and meet all costs associated with the fellowship, including travel-related costs (e.g., airfare, lodging, incidentals), stipends, hardware, and
insurance. Fellows will be supported to ensure that they have the relevant software and sufficient Internet connectivity for online learning.

How to Apply:

English: Prospectus

Français: Prospectus

Português: Prospectus

عربي : Prospectus

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