Deadline: November 7th 2023 | Chevening Fellowship in Healthcare Health Policy and Health Reform
Through several research fellowship programmes, the British Embassy and British Consulates-General in China collaborate closely with a number of significant Chinese organisations and top UK universities to assist the professional growth of mid-career fellows in significant subject fields through Chevening Fellowship in Healthcare Health Policy and Health Reform.
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The University of Oxford serves as the host institution for the Chevening Healthcare Policy and Health Reform Fellowship.
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office is responsible for funding the fellowship.
programme structure
- This six-month fellowship is designed to give mid-career professionals the chance to spend time at the University of Oxford as a visiting fellow, researching a chosen area of health and related social policy that is in line with the Global Health Framework of the UK government.
- Fellows are urged that their research should immediately benefit from their stay in Oxford and will significantly advance the conversation about the ongoing reform of China’s social and health policies.
Fellows are required to finish a paper in English that is up to 10,000 words long. Research topics should serve either the three main goals listed in the Global Health Framework or any of the following important collaboration areas in health policy between the UK and China:
- ‘One Health’ and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Control, prevention, and surveillance of infectious diseases
- Accelerating the process of creating novel and emerging illnesses’ vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics.
- Environment and health
- Populations that are ageing and “healthy ageing.”
- Illnesses that are not contagious
- Fellows are housed by the Department for Continuing Education while they are in Oxford and are associated with Kellogg College. The Oxford faculty provides them with both academic and pastoral support, and they have the same access to open lectures, seminars, and other academic events as regular Visiting Fellows.
Benefits
- Fees for the entire programme for Oxford Visiting Scholar Status.
- For the term of the fellowship, living costs.
- Economy round-trip tickets from China to the UK.
- A package of payments for actions related to research.
- Access to a calendar of activities and events organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat in the cultural realm. Any visiting fellow who chooses to enrol in or participate in a course, activity, or conference that is not among those offered to visiting fellows is solely responsible for paying any associated fees or expenditures.
Eligibility
An applicant for a Chevening Health Fellowship must:
- Accept to follow all applicable rules and requirements for the programme.
- Currently reside in China, be a citizen of China, and have the intention of returning there after the study period.
- At the time of application, possess a postgraduate (PG) level qualification (or comparable professional training or experience in a relevant area).
- Significant and valuable professional experience of five years or more of employment, or a PhD candidate who is enrolled (the PhD cannot be from a university in the UK/EU or the USA).
- Candidates who have previously benefited financially from a scholarship or fellowship supported by HMG are entitled to apply once five years have passed after the completion of their first HMG-funded award, but they must show their career advancement since that time.
- Not hold dual citizenship where one of the nationalities is British (apart from those individuals listed in the Chevening Guidance for Applicants as being excluded from this criterion).
- Not work for, have worked for, or been employed by His Majesty’s Government in the two years prior to the opening of Chevening applications (this includes the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade, and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK nonprofit organisation, or the European Union.
- Employees, former employees, and relatives* of employees of Chevening Partner organisations are eligible to apply. However, if the employment occurred within the last two years, you are not eligible to receive a Chevening Partner Award from the organisation from which you work, were formerly employed, or are related.
*Relatives are defined as parents, stepparents, siblings, children, stepchildren, spouses, civil partners, and unmarried partners (if the couple has been together for at least two years in a relationship that is analogous to marriage or a civil partnership).
For more information, visit the Chevening Fellowship.
